Good info Mike. This is one the entire commercial real estate world should pay attention to. Of course every business should become aware of this, but all the landlords and brokers that facilitate relocations by commercial tenants should be made aware of this.

I used to be a commercial broker and did a lot of tenant work, relocating tenants. It should be in the quiver of everyone involved w/ commercial real estate to assist tenants.

Its so interesting, Mike, over many years we have discussed google places. I used to cringe every time I knew a business relocated or a new business occupied space previously occupied by a different business. Odds were probably 9 to 1 that google places would screw up the information, rather than get it right. It was soooooooooooo bad and inflexible, and tied to engineering algos that had little connection to the real world.

This is a big step in the right direction. Hope it works.

Ahhhhh, Mike. You burst my bubble.

….and suppose the mapmaker edit doesn’t get approved.

Another friggin nightmare of google complications and the right hand and left hand not coordinating.

so you are letting us know that…relocating businesses could still have all sorts of crazy crappy data.

I throw up my hands in anguish… The google system still trumps reality and normalcy. Uggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh

Thanks Mike. When Google shared that example with us I forgot to post an update about it.

@Dave I really gave Google pushback on same city moves since the MM RERS at my forum kept saying the MM rules say DON’T open new and close old – simply edit existing. And I didn’t want have to keep advising businesses to jump through these hoops, if simply editing was an option. Especially since most business moves are nearby/same city.

But in a nutshell I was told by G, on business listings, they really recommend you start new/close old to avoid data conflicts – even though the MM guidelines say the opposite.

IMO this whole problem is because the G+L scraper is out of control. Every time it finds the old data it will try to change your address back. THAT causes support problems. But if the old listing is closed I think it sort of suppresses the old location so it does not keep creating data conflicts. Easier for Google. Much harder and many extra steps for us.

Ah. one small step for relocating businesses, consistency from the monopoly on eyeballs, Google. Maybe not best case alternative but at least consistent between G’ s owndata sources populating the places record.

A positive small step.

tx for the update, Linda