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I have a new address. I have not moved. This has never happened to me before. Some fairly long time ago, the gubmint decided that the 2 houses on the unnamed service road connected to the street that my address is on was sufficient to give it a new name. But the residents in the neighborhood fought against it. So for the past umpteen years there have been 2 houses with addresses that have a street name for a street they’re not quite technically on.
I’m not sure I’m explaining this well. If you follow the google maps down the road my address is on, you will not reach my house. At one point the road forks, and the right hand side is the road, while the left hand side is, well, nothing. That is to say it’s a road, or at least as much as a single dirt lane can be, but it was a single dirt lane before the split too, so nothing really changes there. My house is on that little unnamed dirt road, along with another one a little further down. But I have to have an address, so they assigned the name of the closest road, even though it doesn’t really fit.
Well someone else is building a house on our title unnamed dirt road, and the outcome of that has been that the gubmint noticed us and our little unnamed road again. So we got a new name for the road, and along with that a new address.
It’s the sort of thing that pulls back the curtain on something that we all kind of know is manufactured, but we all kind of accept anyway. It’s good to have a centralized organizer of things like addresses. In particular the reason they needed to update our road to have a name was because of potential 911 issues. In an emergency it’s actually important to know where addresses are and not have houses on two different streets that share the same name right next to each other. The Post Office has to be updated as well, which was apparently handled; and by apparently handled, I mean our local postal worker knows, but the USPS systems are still updating. That means I have to change my mailing address on nearly everything that has my mailing address. I don’t even know how many things that is.
The last and strangest part of the whole process, is trying to tell mapping software that a new address exists, in a place that already has an existing address. This process has different levels of difficulty. On OpenStreetMap.org, which is what it sounds like, an open mapping software, it was as easy as making an account and updating the map. I clocked on the road and renamed it, as well as updating the address with a few more clicks. Google was a little more complicated. I can justest an edit, whichI have done, but it’s no an immediate fix, it has to be reviewed by their mapping people. I don’’t know what that review process entails, because it is all very opaque, or closed if you will. Ideally they’ll search the county GIS records, which have the newly named road and address, but it could also just be a dude in a room flipping a coin to decide yes or no on any update approvals. Or even worse, they could be using an AI now. Apple Maps is even more complicated, because you have to suggest the update only on apple maps via an iphone; there’s no way I can find to do it from a computer, where I made my other updates. They also really want a picture, so I’m going to have to go take a picture of the sign given to us by the county to indicate that a new road exists.
The good news is that I’m pretty sure Google and Apple both steal data from OpenStreetMap on a regular basis, so since the update went through there, it is likely to get picked up by the corporate crawlers in a couple months.
Anyway, I live somewhere new, and it’s technically the easiest move I have ever had, since I didn’t have to actually change anything bout my living conditions.
I’m not sure I’m explaining this well. If you follow the google maps down the road my address is on, you will not reach my house. At one point the road forks, and the right hand side is the road, while the left hand side is, well, nothing. That is to say it’s a road, or at least as much as a single dirt lane can be, but it was a single dirt lane before the split too, so nothing really changes there. My house is on that little unnamed dirt road, along with another one a little further down. But I have to have an address, so they assigned the name of the closest road, even though it doesn’t really fit.
Well someone else is building a house on our title unnamed dirt road, and the outcome of that has been that the gubmint noticed us and our little unnamed road again. So we got a new name for the road, and along with that a new address.
It’s the sort of thing that pulls back the curtain on something that we all kind of know is manufactured, but we all kind of accept anyway. It’s good to have a centralized organizer of things like addresses. In particular the reason they needed to update our road to have a name was because of potential 911 issues. In an emergency it’s actually important to know where addresses are and not have houses on two different streets that share the same name right next to each other. The Post Office has to be updated as well, which was apparently handled; and by apparently handled, I mean our local postal worker knows, but the USPS systems are still updating. That means I have to change my mailing address on nearly everything that has my mailing address. I don’t even know how many things that is.
The last and strangest part of the whole process, is trying to tell mapping software that a new address exists, in a place that already has an existing address. This process has different levels of difficulty. On OpenStreetMap.org, which is what it sounds like, an open mapping software, it was as easy as making an account and updating the map. I clocked on the road and renamed it, as well as updating the address with a few more clicks. Google was a little more complicated. I can justest an edit, whichI have done, but it’s no an immediate fix, it has to be reviewed by their mapping people. I don’’t know what that review process entails, because it is all very opaque, or closed if you will. Ideally they’ll search the county GIS records, which have the newly named road and address, but it could also just be a dude in a room flipping a coin to decide yes or no on any update approvals. Or even worse, they could be using an AI now. Apple Maps is even more complicated, because you have to suggest the update only on apple maps via an iphone; there’s no way I can find to do it from a computer, where I made my other updates. They also really want a picture, so I’m going to have to go take a picture of the sign given to us by the county to indicate that a new road exists.
The good news is that I’m pretty sure Google and Apple both steal data from OpenStreetMap on a regular basis, so since the update went through there, it is likely to get picked up by the corporate crawlers in a couple months.
Anyway, I live somewhere new, and it’s technically the easiest move I have ever had, since I didn’t have to actually change anything bout my living conditions.