Our address in Chitty Chatty appeared legitimate to Google about 3 months after we moved in ... which was over a year after Chitty Chatty opened. So, 15 months is about what it took.

and, yes, some of the people who moved stuff for us used Waze to find us.

Google is approximately 2 - 3 years behind. been there done that ..... and don't bother with support. You can get the Zillow arm to show your address but it will still be a open lot on the map

Once I submitted our house address to Google maps, it took about 3 weeks for it to show up on the map. They send you a couple email letting you know it’s being researched.

It looks like our house in Marsh Bend was completing construction in late 2019 early 2020 and we bought it new in Jan 2021. It started to appear on Google maps sometime around Sept 2021. I never notified Google but perhaps other people did.

I used the missing road link for Waze, it was fixed in 24 hours, I did the same for Apple Maps and it took about a week to update, and the villages app of course.

I am a Property Manager and I often have to use Waze to find streets in the new sections. Seems to take Google forever to get then on their system.

I think of it this way: Google maps is a map program. It will offer the location of streets, just like maps on paper do.
Waze is a gps program. It will give you exact directions, routes, alternate routes, traffic warnings, and live updates, from point A to point B.

Because of the main purpose of Waze, it's not the best program for simple mapping. And because of the main purpose of Google, it isn't the best program for directions. Together, they are an amazing, powerful system. That's probably why they're both owned by Alphabet Inc.

I wonder what map app Villages GPS (the TOTV app; not the free one) uses for it’s backbone?

Use the Waze app
 

I bought my house in Linden in August 2019. Workers and delivery people still call me and say they can’t find my house on whatever GPS system they are using. Since I have plugged my house into the Waze app, it knows how to get there. It is the app used by truckers, and has many advantages over Google maps (such as it has never sent me the wrong way down a one-way street!). The app is free, and it will get you around this predicament. Best wishes in your new home, and welcome!

for me is the opposite I added house manually and now it shows up but the street does not.

Anyway Waze usually has it. I just tell people to use Waze

Don’t hold your breath 😂 it took us two years to be on the map!! Tell your lost delivery person to use the Villages gps map as that is updated quickly

Maps of New Areas
 

Don't know about google maps & deliveries but, use WAZE because it has all of them.

My understanding is that they do it every 18 months. So it should update after that. With a Garmin gps it can take another 18 months to update.

Thanks!
 

WOW! Thanks everyone. I love the TV FORUMS. I have picked up a ton of information on several topics already and I'm not even there yet. Great bunch of people there.
AZ Slim

FWIW - I entered my information in yesterday and its there now. Still doesn't show the actual street we are on but it drops the pin right where I put it....