To be clear, whats happening here is that 55 Water St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 will always produce a pin for 55 Water St
New York, NY 10004.
Notably, 55 Water Street, The Empire Stores, Brooklyn, NY 11201 (which is a very strange way to format an address including the name of a store) will result in the correct location. Basically every dependent service is affected by this including Lyft, Seamless, and Uber.
Interesting as well is that there's no clear way to submit a bug report to google when the search results are wrong because its not technically an issue with the map data.
If you have local knowledge, can you add the address to https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/250402627 (edit button, similar to wikipedia, just more visual editor)? It won't end up in Google database but many others (Apple Maps uses OSM data in many countries).
I work in geocoding myself (https://opencagedata.com/) and can't quite see why Google engine would misplace the result here. Lots of users mistype zip codes so they're sometimes discarded when another full match is found.
Whoa, yeah, I tried "55 water st, brooklyn,ny" in maps.google.com and it dropped the pin in Manhattan (the gigantic office 55 Water building that houses DTCC.)
Having worked there, I confirm it's a pain, since this issue is pervasive to any service using those. People often have to mid-direct their deliveries, cars, etc to nearby addresses (54, across the street, works fine)
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 21.4 ms ] threadInteresting as well is that there's no clear way to submit a bug report to google when the search results are wrong because its not technically an issue with the map data.
I work in geocoding myself (https://opencagedata.com/) and can't quite see why Google engine would misplace the result here. Lots of users mistype zip codes so they're sometimes discarded when another full match is found.