A woman whose house was damaged by a tornado late last year now owns nothing but rubble.<\/p>\n
A demolition crew destroyed her building by mistake on Tuesday after Google Maps provided wrong directions.<\/p>\n
Instead of navigating workers to a duplex on Cousteau Drive in Rowlett, Texas, Google Maps took them a block away to Diaz’s duplex on Calypso Drive.<\/p>\n
“[Google’s] mistake caused me to lose my home,” she told CNNMoney on Friday.<\/p>\n
Google acknowledged the Maps error in an email, and said it’s investigating the cause.<\/p>\n
“Google Maps did indeed show incorrect information for the houses in question,” a spokeswoman told CNNMoney. “The issue was fixed as soon as it was brought to our attention.”<\/p>\n
Google Maps now points to Diaz’s home accurately. Apple (AAPL<\/span>, Tech30) Maps, Yahoo Maps and MapQuest also display the correct information.<\/p>\n \n Google (GOOGL<\/span>, Tech30) Maps uses a combination of satellite, aerial and street-level images and data to chart the world. The company also takes submissions and change requests through its Google Map Maker tool to keep its maps up to date.<\/p>\n GPS errors occur quite frequently — as anyone with a smartphone or GPS device knows.<\/p>\n And even though there’s a pretty big difference between getting wrong directions to a party and getting wrong directions to a house you’re about to demolish, technology can’t be fully to blame.<\/p>\n Diaz told CNN affiliate KTVT that a site supervisor confirmed several facts about the demolition site with his crew before work began: the house number, that it was a corner lot, the tornado damage.<\/p>\n He said “yes, yes, yes,” according to Diaz. “Except the street wasn’t confirmed.”<\/p>\n The company, Billy L. Nabors Demolition, did not respond to request for comment on Friday.<\/p>\n The correct house was also eventually demolished.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A woman whose house was damaged by a tornado late last year now owns nothing but rubble. A demolition crew destroyed her building by mistake on Tuesday after Google Maps provided wrong directions. Instead of navigating workers to a duplex on Cousteau Drive in Rowlett, Texas, Google Maps took them a block away to Diaz’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}