Google Maps can make a large number of errors when giving its directions , from making you go through streets where your vehicle does not fit even if you try to shoehorn it to telling you to go through pedestrian streets, places that are not what you were looking for or residential sites where if you enter you will be fined.
Surely you have heard and read a large number of cases of people who have suffered because of the indications of the famous map service or problems with their GPS, and there are more and more. Although Google works hard to perfect its service, it is not fully effective in certain cases and can put you in serious danger.
It can happen to you too, although luckily there is something you can do to remedy it. This function has been active for a while, but many people still do not know about it. It is the one that allows you to create and edit streets to correct errors and get rid of more than one trouble.
Whoever wishes, will be able to change the address of a street, add others, modify routes or change names to update the app and make it more precise. Google will confirm all the changes that are made to avoid possible deception and that the remedy is not worse than the disease.
In the editor, you can draw the new route or street or report an error or temporary change so that Google takes care of it. We tell you how you can easily do it depending on the action you want to perform.
Change wrong directions on Google Maps
If you want to correct an address from Android , the steps are these:
- open the app
- look for an address
- Click on the 3 dots in the upper right corner
- Select Suggest a change
- Click on Change name or other data
- Write the data
- Confirm in Publish
From iPhone you will have to follow these steps:
- open the app
- look for an address
- Click on Suggest a change
- Confirm Correct an address
- Write the data
- Click on Publish
You can also do it from Edit Map , which is found in the Contribute section of the app, where you will also find the possibility of adding or correcting routes (with many options at your disposal).
All these tools will allow you to improve the service both for yourself and for other people who use it.
So you can add an address that does not appear
If you want to add an address that is not there, you have to do the following from your iPhone or Android device:
- open the app
- Click on Contribute
- Go to Edit Map
- Select Correct an address
- move the map
- Go to Next
- Write the data
- Tap on Send
You can also add private tags , in case you have to make an observation for yourself that you consider important and that only you will see, and add missing sites or buildings in case you consider it necessary for someone else (or you when you return) to reach the site without be lost. You can also do all this from your computer, and it will be very simple, but the important thing is that you update everything so that Google Maps errors do not repeat themselves.
If we contribute with our contributions, we will reduce these Google failures to a minimum in order to have the peace of mind of being able to follow the instructions without fear of what may happen. Although, in any case, be careful on the road and try to find the safest routes.
