{"id":87,"date":"2007-01-20T10:56:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T14:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2007-01-20T10:56:56","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T14:56:56","slug":"google-responds-to-geolocation-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/20\/google-responds-to-geolocation-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Google responds to geolocation issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a more than a little irony in Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/Google-Maps-For-Business-Owners\/browse_thread\/thread\/756e1c9ba6815d81?hl=en\">&#8220;official response&#8221;<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=83\">complaints about problems<\/a> with the underlying geo-location data (italics are mine for emphasis):<\/p>\n<p>== 9 of 10 ==<br \/>\nDate: Fri, Jan 19 2007 2:29 pm<br \/>\nFrom: &#8220;Maps Guide Jen&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to let you know that your voices and concerns are being heard.<br \/>\nCurrently because we source all of our map data from NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas,<br \/>\nwe may not be able to make manual corrections to your business locations. We<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t currently have a way for you to submit your specific map corrections<br \/>\nto Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p><em>Some business owners have reported that adding a note to the &#8220;Description&#8221;<br \/>\nsection of their business listing has helped their customers to find them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can edit your listing by following the instructions at<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/maps.google.com\/support\/bin\/answer.py?answer=15391&#038;topic=1481<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nJen<\/p>\n<p>==<\/p>\n<p>Bill Slawski <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seobythesea.com\/?p=444\">talks about a recent Google patent<\/a>  to improve location information accuracy. Clearly Google is working on this difficult problem. Obviously, they have yet to solve it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a more than a little irony in Google&#8217;s &#8220;official response&#8221; to the complaints about problems with the underlying geo-location data (italics are mine for emphasis): == 9 of 10 == Date: Fri, Jan 19 2007 2:29 pm From: &#8220;Maps Guide Jen&#8221; I just wanted to let you know that your voices and concerns &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}