Google Maps labels dude's house as a pizzeria and now everyone wants pizza
2024-05-28 02:19:16

Everyone loves pizza, but no one loves strangers coming to one's home and demanding it.

So spare a thought for Michael McElwee from Darwin, Australia, whose house keeps being visited by randoms looking for pizza. It's all thanks to an error on Google Maps.

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McElwee told ABC Radio Darwinthat first, a guy showed up at his house wanting to deliver magazines to a pizza place. Then another person came asking about a job. Then his daughter was approached by people wanting to know their opening hours.

As Google Maps shows, his home as been labelled a pop-up pizzeria, which only appears for parts of the year in a nearby park.

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"It is like getting your identity stolen," he told the station. "Your house has been stolen and put in as a pizza shop."

Such mistakes have been costly in the past. In Texas a house was accidentally demolished last year because Google Maps displayed an incorrect address. These errors fortunately can be corrected with Google Maps' reporting tool, though.

A Google spokesperson said it was aware of the error and had fixed it on Wednesday night. Phew!

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But the fact remains: We want pizza.


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