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Street address errors in Google Maps

I was driving around Vernon, BC a few weeks ago and I asked Google Maps for directions to 3207 30th Ave. It confidently told me where to go but luckily my passenger noticed that it was actually dir…

I visited this location as well and the building address is actually 1131 W 16th Ave (the house is on a corner) and there is a five on one of the doors on the Montcalm side. It appears that there is an address database somewhere – created by Google Maps, or the cities in BC, or perhaps from Street View data. I don’t remember noticing this type of error before so it does seem like Google Maps might have just ingested a batch of bad data.

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