Location services giving wrong suburb (Australia)

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whoistheg Author

Level 1

2 points

Location services giving wrong suburb (Australia)

Sorry this might be a bit Australian Focused

but

Anyone know how to change or set Apples location services to a correct suburb?

I want to set reminders for when i leave and get HOME but built in location thinks HOME is another suburb name so the

Alarms and Alerts never get activated

e.g. I live in Point Cook, Victoria, 3030

and i have my HOME set for:

house number, street, Point Cook, Victoria, 3030

but when i click on current location it thinks it is

house number, street, Wyndham, Victoria, 3030

Wyndham is the name of the Local Council not a suburb.

It is not a new suburb and has been around for around 30 years.

All Tomtom and other GPS devices can navigate to our correct HOME address fine

Any Ideas how to fix it?

I don't want to change Home address as its our real address and i get a lot of stuff
shipped here using the same account

This also occurs with Find My Friends as well

iPhone 4, iOS 5, Location Services

Posted on Oct 26, 2011 5:03 PM

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Answer 1

Oct 28, 2011 5:16 AM in response to whoistheg

I've got the exact same problem!

In my contact card, my home address is set at:

House number, street

West Pennant Hills

New South Wales 2125

Australia

Yet while I'm sitting at home the maps app's "current location" gives me:

House Number, street

Baulkham Hills

New South Wales 2125

Australia

It lists the same address, street name, postcode, etc.. but is listing the adjacent suburb instead of where I actually live!! The address it is reporting doesn't exist..

And of course, this means I can't use location based reminders, etc..

The strange thing is, if I click my address on the contact card it opens up maps and drops a pin in the CORRECT location o.O

Who should we contact to rectify this problem? (I know google runs the map service, but is there a phone number/web form/etc?)

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Answer 2

biggos

Level 1

4 points

Nov 18, 2011 12:37 AM in response to A_McIntyre

This is a very annoying bug. I just lodged a bug report with Apple - I would suggest you doing the same:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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