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Why is my icon marker on the Impact maps in the wrong place? Print E-mail

All of the Impact Online Directories use the Google Map API for it's mapping functionality. Google supplies an excellent product, but various problems still may exist in it's mapping abilities used on the Impact Online Directory.

  • Does not map my address at all

    Your location on the map is derived from Google's data reflecting your street address, city and state. If the Google map is not mapping your location at all, one of these three elements of data are probably not correct or missing. For example, if your address is 123 Lake Shore Dr. and Google has "Lake Shore" spelled as "Lakeshore," you may not be mapping correctly. Many times, part of the address data is missing and only a general location is supplied. An example of this would be "Serving the Treasure Valley" or "Located on the Airforce base." Neither of these are addresses that can be properly mapped by Google.

  • My icon marker is in the wrong location

    The source of data Google uses for the maps supplied on the Impact Online Directory is TeleAtlas. If the data that TeleAtlas has supplied is incorrect, your icon will not display in the correct position. Two things can be done to fix this problem on the Impact Online Directory.

    • Call or email Impact with your correct location. We can use this new location to supply our Google Maps with your exact Latitude and Longitude coordinates and force the icon into the right position on our Directories.
    • To speed up the process, you may find your location's latitude and longitude yourself to supply to us using this free service, getlatlon.com. There are many others to choose from, we just find this one easy and to the point.
    • The good people at TeleAtlas have a website dedicated for corrections to their pool of data. This includes new street names and map icon locations for addresses. Once your location has been updated with TeleAtlas, the next time data is sent to Google on your location, your icon will be fix globally with everyone using the Google Map API. Here is the link where you can fix this data: TeleAtlas
 
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