Clicked map in Calendar to get driving directions - has my Home in "Home, MI"

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Clicked map in Calendar to get driving directions - has my Home in "Home, MI"

A really weird thing happened to me this morning. I had an appointment at an office I'd never been to before. I wanted to send a map to my iPhone to make it easy to find - only I found that the map had me driving from the centre of Michigan - I'm in Arizona! This has never happened before - has anyone else encountered this problem? I've used Maps many times, and my Contact listing has my correct Home address - where is this Home in Michigan coming from? I've sent a couple of error reports from the Maps app, but this was really aggravating.

MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Jun 23, 2015 3:49 PM

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Answer 1

Jun 23, 2015 6:04 PM in response to ChrisMacNewbie

I think I figured this out, or at least a workaround. I created a Contact to the office location first, and then I created an appointment using the contact. Now, Maps behaves properly.

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Answer 2

Jul 14, 2015 12:07 PM in response to ChrisMacNewbie

YES! Drove me crazy for a half an hour trying to figure out why it keeps defaulting to HOME, MI!

I Fixed the problem. It's probably a glitch in how they coded the software to read home as a geo-location and finds Home, MI first. What I did was:

Dropped a "current Location" pin here at home and my address pops up in a window on the map

Then I "Added To Address Book" and when the Address Book opens, I only enter "HOME" in the first name and close it.

Then redropped the pin and I "Added To Favorites" in the window on the map software.

Now when I enter a location for directions, my "HOME" address pops up as a choice for the "from" box.

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