WG gave me address, but according to Google street doesn't exist

[Dime]

I sent a WhatsApp to a WG from AW arlier to try and arrange a punt for Saturday. She sent me the address, but when I looked on Google maps on my phone the street doesn't exist anywhere in the city. I asked her where it was near or any landmarks nearby but even when she told me where it was supposedly near, for the life of me I can't find it, according to google it doesn't exist in this city. I asked her to confirm she was definitely in my city and she said yes.
I can drive, but at the moment I don't have a car so normally take the train or taxi when going for a punt. So imagine the embarrassment of me saying the street name to a taxi driver, and him not knowing because of course it doesn't seem to exist.
 Advice appreciated. Something dodgy, not right??

[Marmalade]

Link?

Maybe Sergei mis-typed the address and the only time she’s been outside is when she got out of the van.   

[Mi-Go]

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Try using this.  If still no trace on the Royal Mail website then better call it off.

[Zeusthedoc]

Google maps and royal mail are both good shouts.
I've had a WG give me the complete wrong start to a postcode. She missed a letter out and the town/city changed completely.

As above, post a link here etc. Has she been reviewed here before? You could ask previous reviewers...hard to tell if it's definitely dodgy but personally I wouldn't take the risk - I'm all about easy punts these days.

[Blackpool Rock]

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Try using this.  If still no trace on the Royal Mail website then better call it off.

I often use the postcode finder in conjunction with google maps to locate somewhere when just given the postcode.
While my sat nav brings up the road name from the postcode it then asks for a house number however if you don't know it then you end up putting in a random number which can be quite far away, I once did this and ended up about a mile away.

EE girls / Sergi often get the spelling of towns and roads wrong and i'm not quite sure they always get our postcodes right either.

If you can't easily find or locate where you need to go or get confirmation then personally i'd move on, a link to the girl would be good

[shagmore]

It could be a very new estate, that is the only time I have seen google come back with that.
Another thing I do is use the street view to check out parking, etc and to see if its a dodgy area, if so then I am more careful.- not helpful without the post code.
Give us the post code/link

[Blackpool Rock]

It could be a very new estate, that is the only time I have seen google come back with that.
Another thing I do is use the street view to check out parking, etc and to see if its a dodgy area, if so then I am more careful.- not helpful without the post code.
Give us the post code/link

Exactly what I do, I once looked on street view to see half the windows boarded up, needless to say I didn't book.

[catweazle]

It could be a very new estate, that is the only time I have seen google come back with that.

This ^^^ i live in a new build property and almost a year in it still isnt on google maps or tomtom satnav

[scutty brown]

I use Google maps quite a lot to confirm addresses before visiting locations, and I've found there are quite a number of discrepancies in their system. Its not unusual for a post code to link to the wrong street, be out of date/superceded or just plain wrong. I'm fairly certain there are bugs in the software which maps postcodes onto Googles mapping algorithm (which is different from the OS grid reference)

[Chorley]

It could be a very new estate, that is the only time I have seen google come back with that.
Another thing I do is use the street view to check out parking, etc and to see if its a dodgy area, if so then I am more careful.- not helpful without the post code.
Give us the post code/link

The only time this ever happened it was a new build and the post code took me to a farm 5 miles away.  I phoned the WG who gave me the address, but she got the spelling of the road slightly wrong, which meant I rocked up at a Pikey site, rather than her flat!  

[pewpewpew]

I've had a girl send me the address as whatever road but was actually whatever avenue or street or whatever. Google struggled to make the correlation

[rubric]

Seen this all the time with new estates (as above) or where an existing estate has been enlarged, and new post codes have been allocated.

Also, as above outside larger towns, google can be surprisingly inaccurate.

[Gordon Bennett]

This ^^^ i live in a new build property and almost a year in it still isnt on google maps or tomtom satnav

If this is the case the escort must have queries off every punter who contacts her so she should be prepared to supply details, existing post code, directions or whatever that stack up and make sense. Ultimately, I can't see how the OP can possibly visit her if he can't ascertain where she is......... onus is on her to clarify matters and "guide him in" so to speak.

[Blackpool Rock]

The post office do also change postcodes around from time to time so their postcode finder should be accurate and presumably flag if any codes your looking at have recently changed.
Google maps will take a while to catch up especially in the not so built up areas and if you haven't updated your sat nav software you could be caught out

[PatMacGroin]

I've had problems with google address searches a couple of times, even in long established area's of London.

If you type an address straight into a google web search it will usually bring up a map result first, then other links (under the "All" results search tab, not just the "Maps" tab). Click on the map and your google maps app opens showing that location. Sometimes, typing the exact same address into a search directly into the google maps app brings up a different location.

Should say, that's with a "full address" lacking postcode. So house number, correct road name, local area/borough.

Off the top of my head I can remember this happening to me when trying to find addresses in Camden, Brixton and Twickenham. Can't remember which turned out to be more accurate, the general search or google maps.

[Doombar]

I would ask her for the postcode.

[Hurley]

New build is the worst I once had an address as part of my job and the estate wasn’t even on there never mind the street

[Horizontal pleasures]

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[Zeusthedoc]

WAZE app for satnav traffic & location
 is the best as updated all the time

WAZE is powered and part owned by Google

[HarryZZ]

WAZE app for satnav traffic & location
 is the best as updated all the time

Speed cameras too I understand, I just can't get it to work with CarPlay.

[Horizontal pleasures]

WAZE is powered and part owned by Google

Waze - Wikipedia
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Waze (formerly FreeMap Israel) is a GPS navigation software that works on smartphones and tablets with GPS support and provides turn-by-turn navigation ...
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[Zeusthedoc]

Waze - Wikipedia
External Link/Members Only
Waze (formerly FreeMap Israel) is a GPS navigation software that works on smartphones and tablets with GPS support and provides turn-by-turn navigation ...
Developer(s)‎: ‎Google   License‎: ‎Software and Maps: Proprietary
Original author(s)‎: ‎Waze Mobile

It was acquired by Google for between $1-1.5bn a few years back. Waze updates are integrated into Google Maps - Waze does also work as a standalone app. Forbes quotes roughly 1.3bn. It was a strategic purchase - they didn't need Waze but needed to stop Apple & Facebook from getting it.

The advantage of Google Maps is that it knows up to date information of people it has put on which routes to which destinations. As well as historical information about particular routes. Every time I've traveled with Google Maps I've arrived with 2-3 mins of the estimate. Whether a 4hr drive or a 20 min drive.

As far as I'm concerned - there is probably little else on the market as accurate.