Wrong address for parallel roads

by **vtran81** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:24 pm

There are two roads, A and B, that are parallel to each other. When I tried to go to 1000 Road A, Waze pointed the address to be near Road B and thus the direction to this address is wrong (it showed to go to Road B instead). Is there a way to fix this?

Thanks.

by **bigbear3764** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:39 am

Where does google or bing put your address?

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by **xteejx** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 1:50 am

The problem might be happening because you're searching for Road A. ;-)

Seriously though if you tell us where this is we can check it out. What provider were you using?

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by **vtran81** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:02 pm

Google shows the correct place. I was using the Waze provider.

by **bigbear3764** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:28 pm

Check bing too. I usually find google at the door and bing out on the street.

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by **vtran81** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 2:57 pm

Bing shows the wrong place as well (same as Waze).

by **gettingthere** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 3:35 pm

If you want this fixed, you have to try to get Bing to fix it. Waze uses Bing data to resolve street addresses in the USA - even if they show up as Waze results. The integration is in the Waze back-end.

by **tnorman5828** » Sun Jul 08, 2012 1:28 am

I have a similar issue. Bing Maps shows the address correctly. Google Maps shows it a bit off, but if it used that point I could be happy enough. The only difference between Bing Maps and the Waze map is a parking lot street that doesn't exist on the Waze map but does on the Bing map (the parking lot street also doesn't appear on the Google Map). I added the parking lot road to the waze map in hopes of getting better results.

The odd thing that I see is when I use the live map on the Waze website to get directions to this address, it seems to do it correctly no matter what direction I come in from. When I use the app on my android phone (Droid X) it always chooses the parallel street so the route is always wrong.

Any thoughts?