NAPtastic: Google updated G+ page to "correct" street spelling, but not Maps

[PerfectPitchConcepts]

A client's G+ page updated from "Jimmy" to "Jimmie" Rd. The change is technically correct according to the legal county road name, though the Places, G+, and indeed even the printed inscription on the Google map itself all say "Jimmy." So, too, does virtually all of the NAP instances around the web.

Question - should we update Business Registration Managers with the updated address info and assume the Google change will also eventually filter to other Google assets, or make no changes?

Weird, right? Here's the Place:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Georgia+Square+Collision/@33.9357517,-83.4885575,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x57927ad08d139333

Thanks!

[WhiteboardCreations]

That is a strange occurrence. I just searched "jimmie Daniel road georgia" in Google and hit enter. The results ALL show "Jimmy Road" and even Google offered up "Did you mean "jimmy road..." as an option to search. Even Zillow has "Jimmy" as the street name, not like they help your localized search, but Zillow is a massive real estate site, so you'd think they would have it right or at least updated as well in their database. Check out the screen snippet I pulled.

For now, I wouldn't change anything you are doing. Just keep an eye on it as from a searchers perspective, Google is still trying to show them a relevant result option of "Did you mean jimmy road...". Hope this was a helpful answer! - Patrick

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[PerfectPitchConcepts]

Patrick,

I saw that "did you mean" in the SERP, as well, thank you for corroborating. Interesting point about Zillow. I wonder where on Earth Google is getting the "correct" spelling from?

Unless someone sees a NAP inconsistency issue here, we'll leave this dog to lie. Even if there was, and arguably there is, I'm not sure if there's even a way to address it.

Thanks!

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Perfect Pitch,

I agree with Patrick - don't touch anything. I would, however, report the issue via the Google Mapmaker Forum:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/map-maker

See if you can get one of the RERs there to help you get the map corrected before you make changes to anything else. Clearly, there's an important discrepancy here that could be causing problems, not just for your client, but for everyone doing business on that street and everyone trying to come there to do business.

[WhiteboardCreations]

Thanks for that, Miriam! That Google Map Forum is something new to me, so I'll be poking around in there tonight as we're in the midst of developing a website for large shopping center and integrating a custom Google Map for their tenants. Having a little issue here and there, so this forum may come in handy! - Patrick

[MiriamEllis]

You're very welcome, Patrick. Sounds like you've got a busy day ahead! Good luck with everything you're doing.