[mikeycereal]

When I first moved into St. Johns in May 2022 we weren't on the google map. Deliveries weren't a problem Amazon somehow located my house. I used the UF Health clinic as my google map base to get back home. I think the main street of Okahumpka appeared first. Our streets appeared in google about 2 months later.

[Leaving Snow]

Originally Posted by ed.ferrier

I am building a new home in Moultrie Creek and I see that Google maps does not show any of new roads in this area. How often does Google maps update for new roads in The Villages?

Google can be slow to update as The Villages builds quickly.
Use either The Village App (free) or The Villages GPS App (inexpensive); both available in the google play store and updated regularly, both work well.

[MidWestIA]

Waze or villages app or guess what you can edit google map and add streets to you - I did

[ellenwelsh]

I’ve sent your question to my son, who works for google maps.

[NoMo50]

When we first moved in, our village was brand new. None of our streets were on Google Maps, but they were all in Waze. The delivery drivers knew this, and we had no problems getting deliveries. It took Google about 6 months to catch up. As one poster mentioned, Google owns Waze (acquired around 2013), but it takes Google Maps a little longer to roll out new streets, as that product is somewhat more robust. As an example, Google Maps offers offline navigation, which Waze does not.

[Djean1981]

I remember when we first moved here, our street was not on Google maps. Within Google maps, there's a way to submit a new location. I did that a couple times. I'm not sure if that sped things up or not. At the bottom of the app home screen, press "Contribute."

[Babubhat]

Send your coordinates to their Twitter account. The more people that report, the faster they update

[ellenwelsh]

1 to 3 years

[KenLee100]

Originally Posted by ed.ferrier

I am building a new home in Moultrie Creek and I see that Google maps does not show any of new roads in this area. How often does Google maps update for new roads in The Villages?

My home in St Catherine is three years old. Google still shows it as a bare field. On your phone use the free Villages app, pay 7.99 for Villages GPS or use Waze.

[Foxmd]

I add streets, new buildings and restaurants frequently to Google maps. It is easy to do once you find the contribute link in Google maps.

[bopat]

Google maps seems to have problems here in Florida. Both updates and correct directions. Every time we go to the Orlando airport we miss an exit coming back because it tells to go west on an exit that's supposed to be east. Sometimes it tells us north to go south and vice versa. We noticed the same behavior in Texas. But New York seemed to be really good, even in the city. Maybe with all the construction and new roads it gets confused? Not sure how to submit corrections to google maps, it sure would be nice to have those things updated.

[R20-Matt]

Waze is faster because its data is crowd sourced vs Google relying on satellite and robotic cars. They rely on users actual movement for traffic speed etc and their data is much faster / more real time because of this. Same for the road info. As someone mentioned, both Waze and Google maps are owned by Google, but different divisions. We recently moved into Lake Denham and only had one initial issue with UPS due to their systems, and it was quickly fixed as folks manually entered addresses into the systems.

[jimkerr]

Originally Posted by ed.ferrier

I am building a new home in Moultrie Creek and I see that Google maps does not show any of new roads in this area. How often does Google maps update for new roads in The Villages?

I always go into maps and add the roads so they are aware.

[MrChip72]

Originally Posted by R20-Matt

Waze is faster because its data is crowd sourced vs Google relying on satellite and robotic cars. They rely on users actual movement for traffic speed etc and their data is much faster / more real time because of this. Same for the road info. As someone mentioned, both Waze and Google maps are owned by Google, but different divisions. We recently moved into Lake Denham and only had one initial issue with UPS due to their systems, and it was quickly fixed as folks manually entered addresses into the systems.

Google Maps is crowd sourced as well. Community contributors is how most of the maps in the newer Villages get updated. I think because the demographic is trending to younger people, you're seeing more Villagers going in and updating Google Maps themselves with missing streets so most of the newer Villages are getting updated quickly.

I can see that the streets in the village of Lake Denham are mostly there but some are unlabelled, someone should compare to the map on the Villages app and update Google with the proper streets names.

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