Do i live in a sat-nav error?

[Justin Case]

I live in a short cul-de-sac, 10 houses only, so there is very little traffic. However we regularly get vans and cars coming into our road, turning round and leaving without calling anywhere. We are the first road off a fairly busy road out of the village, but that only leads to other residential areas, so are a significant number of drivers too stupid to know what a no through road sign means, or are we a deliberate mistake on a sat-nav to detect other companies breaching copywrite? I know that paper maps do this, I used regularly go to a Church Hill that appeared as Church Road on the A to Z and the car park of our local park had been given a street name on the same book, so has it spread to the digital world?

[Truckosaurus]

Maybe not an 'error' as such, but the first convenient place to turn around once people have been re-routed or gone past their destination.

Or delivery drivers (some part timers use their own car) have made a few drops in the area and they also need to go back the way they came.

The only time I've noticed a sat-nav error is where what would once have been a through road has had bollards put up to block the road and that's not made it onto the map.

[Riley Blue]

You've got off lightly. I live at a number 6 with two more number 6s within 20 yards, each with different road names from ours.

Guess which house gets deliveries several times a week for the other two including pizzas at 1:00am!

ETA - I just answered the door to face a parcel about 2' x 3' x 4' on the path with the driver just about to get back in their van. The address on the parcel was ours but the name wasn't...

Edited by Riley Blue on Thursday 30th July 13:17