How long does your driveway have to be to get its own name?

[sailfish]

Legitimate question. So just how long does your long sh*y driveway have to be to constitute having it's own 9-1-1 lane name on the map?

 

[oldngray]

It isn't length but it has to be a dedicated street. Most private drives of any length won't be on maps.

 

[cosmo1]

65.4 meters.

 

[IVE GOTTA PACKAGE 4U]

Depends on how much you donate to the local municipality.

 

[sailfish]

It isn't length but it has to be a dedicated street. Most private drives of any length won't be on maps.

We must be from two very different areas. I see it all the time.

 

[Brownslave688]

There's a difference between having your private lane and it showing up on a map. Had 2 of them yesterday. Neither was anywhere to be found on a map.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

We must be from two very different areas. I see it all the time.

The same here.

 

[oldngray]

There's a difference between having your private lane and it showing up on a map. Had 2 of them yesterday. Neither was anywhere to be found on a map.

Those private lanes may be on some maps but may not. I have seen it both ways and different maps of the same areas vary.

 

[sailfish]

There's a difference between having your private lane and it showing up on a map. Had 2 of them yesterday. Neither was anywhere to be found on a map.

Indeed, but I see many of the latter with every route I learn.

 

[cosmo1]

Indeed, but I see many of the latter with every route I learn.

It really isn't hard to find them.

 

[UPS4Life]

I had a neighbor who maybe twenty years ago was out of town and found a street sign with his name took it and put it at the end of their semi long driveway. It for whatever reason I was looking at the at my house on satellite and realized their street name is on Apple maps. Only house back the lane maybe 1/8 of mile.

 

[sailfish]

It really isn't hard to find them.

The question though is, for example,

Say you have 520 Bumfak Road and 540 Bumfak Road, but in between them is just a long sh*y driveway that leads to one house whose address is 121 Weeping Willow Way. Why is their address 121 Weeping Willow Way instead of 530 Bumfak Road?

 

[Indecisi0n]

It's not about the length but more about the girth.

 

[sailfish]

It's not about the length but more about the girth.

Oh.

 

[cosmo1]

The question though is, for example,

Say you have 520 Bumfak Road and 540 Bumfak Road, but in between them is just a long sh*y driveway that leads to one house whose address is 121 Weeping Willow Way. Why is their address 121 Weeping Willow Way instead of 530 Bumfk Road?

Because somewhere along the line, probably during 911 re-addressing, Weeping Willow Way was added into the database as a road.

Seeing as how it's in EDD, it would be listed near the two Bumfaks, it shouldn't be hard to find.

You should have worked here back in prehistoric times when people out in the sticks had RD addresses. Your head would have exploded.

 

[sailfish]

Because somewhere along the line, probably during 911 re-addressing, Weeping Willow Way was added into the database as a road.

Seeing as how it's in EDD, it would be listed near the two Bumfaks, it shouldn't be hard to find.

You should have worked here back in prehistoric times when people out in the sticks had RD addresses. Your head would have exploded.

It's not really finding them that's the issue, It's why Weeping Willow Way was added into the database in the first place instead of just being recognized as the driveway that it is.

 

[oldngray]

Sometimes you get weird things like houses using proposed streets as addresses. Might only be one house like that in the middle of another street. Or where another street would supposedly intersect but the road doesn't go through to meet the other street.

 

[cosmo1]

It's not really finding them that's the issue, It's why Weeping Willow Way was added into the database in the first place instead of just being recognized as the driveway that it is.

Why not?

Wouldn't you like to have your own street named whatever you want?

 

[rod]

It took me over 8 years of hounding Google Maps and Yahoo Maps to get my private road in their system. Now I wish I hadn't. I've came to the conclusion its better if the world can't find you.

 

[cosmo1]

It took me over 8 years of hounding Google Maps and Yahoo Maps to get my private road in their system. Now I wish I hadn't. I've came to the conclusion its better if the world can't find you.

Rod Ave.?