I'm a helpful soul. Stroke me.

My blind reliance on Google Maps sent me on a 2 hour wild goose chase in the pouring rain this week. I was searching for an engraver in Providence RI to add a name to a hip flask graduation gift for a member of my fencing team. I eventually found an address and a phone number, online but via a friend, and gave the owner of ‘Impressions’ engraving a call. She offered me her address but i turned it down as i was in a rush and believed i already had it.

On the plus side, i found out that it is possible to edit locations in Google Maps, however if you change the address by too large a distance it is not immediately updated. I wonder how Google sorts fraudulent updates from good ones?

So i guess the moral of this story is that nothing is more authoritative about a business than the person who stands to make money from it.