[amityk]

Mike's comments once again about the house numbers and names on the lamp posts was so appropriate and important. I walk and ride my bike a lot here in the Villages and it amazes me how many people have allowed their flowers to totally obstruct the sign posts. Another observation I have made is part time residents who remove their signs when they leave, hopefully there will never be a need for the fire dept to respond to that address!! Personally we made a decision for a permanent sign on our house with number and names.

[JohnZ]

Address numbers must be on all homes not just signs on lamp posts. Once authorities are given an address, they should have no problem finding a house using web-based GIS or GPS. Heck, now we can do this on our cell phones for $9.95 a month. I'd worry a little about police, fire or paramedics needing signs to find us given the technology today.

[LG]

SOUTH of 466 is not on GPS yet.... an easy way to fins out is to go to GOOGLE MAPS and enter you address.. see what come up where

[JohnZ]

Understood LG. And this raises an interesting question. I know that there is lag-time from when the initial road surveys are uploaded to the county GIS and then there is lag-time uploading the location address layer when they are established and there is lag-time uploading this to civilian accessible GPS programs. The question is, how long does this usually take? I would assume that county emergency services would rely on GIS information not yet accessible to us but is available to them. We live in TV, Marion, and it took a couple of years for the location of our home and business to appear on Google earth. I hope it doesn't take two years for local governments to update their GIS. Interesting.