A couple of weeks ago I was studying Maps as I walked through downtown Brattleboro, looking for something to add. I noticed a relatively new storefront that didn’t have a pin. It is a tasting room for a local distillery (photo below). I took some photos, found out the opening date, and added it to Maps. Maps suggested I was adding a place that already existed, but it allowed me to add it. When I checked the edit, it was at the distillery itself, which is about a mile and a half from downtown. I saw that they had both locations addresses in their business profile, so it wouldn’t add another pin, and the addition dropped off. I called the distillery, explained about being a LG and pointed out that no one could find the tasting room due to the address issue. They were aware of the problem but didn’t know how to fix it. I emailed them a link about adding a second location, but nothing changed. I tried a couple of different ways to add it, but couldn’t, so I emailed them again with a different link about how to solve the problem. Last week I noticed that they had taken the downtown address out of their business address, so I was finally able to add the tasting room to Maps. I took a screenshot of Maps info, circled “claim this business” and emailed it to them. Today I got an email from them thanking me for my assistance. I love making Maps more useful and helping local places take advantage of what it has to offer.
Well done @Rednewt74 .That is the way to make Google Maps credible and as exact as posible.I salute you
Interesting, @Rednewt74
I have never seen this before. Just to be sure: the approval went through only after address was removed from their website? And did you add the website to the new listing?
Cheers
Morten
When it started if you looked up The Tasting Room it showed it at their Distillery location on the other side of town. I noticed in there business listing that they had The Distillery location address followed by The Tasting Room address. When I added it the first time it still put it at The Distillery location. Since they had an active business profile, I wasn’t comfortable editing their address info.
So yes, it was not until they took out the Tasting Room address that I could add it to the correct location. I didn’t think to add the other information, but I can see the company has already done that.
Thanks, @Rednewt74
Writing two addresses in the address field on Google Maps is a mistake.
Great fix. I get it now.
Cheers
Morten
Good job @Rednewt74 I too have had to submit a new location a couple of times , as long as the "new’ location has some presence on the web you should be good.