Google Maps Sends Travelers to My House: NJ Woman

Get driving directions to a New Jersey state park on Google Maps, and you just may end up in a private driveway. The mapping error has been the source of endless frustration for resident Laurie Gneiding and her husband, she tells the Star-Ledger. “It started with one or two people but last year dozens of people were coming up.” Last year, the couple put up four “No Trespassing” signs; next, they set up an 8-foot traffic barrier, but people keep trying.

The couple lives in a log cabin that backs onto Round Valley State Park. For a long time, they didn’t know the cause of the confusion, but finally someone told them Google had led him there. “My biggest fear is coming home someday and having ‘visitors’ in my backyard pool or something happening to my dogs when they’re in their outside pen,” she says. She has reported the problem to Google five times, to no avail; a rep for the tech giant says she doesn’t know when it will be fixed. (More Google Maps stories.)