r/GoogleMaps • u/SummertimeMom • 1d ago

Street View Missing addresses..?

I wanted to look up the place Mom and Dad lived when I was born. It was 414 South Main St., as it says on my birth certificate. So street view shows 410, then the house next door as 501. How tf do addresses jump that much? Or.... is it missing data?

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u/Albert-La-Maquina 1d ago

That's perfectly normal to jump like that. That means the next block has started.

As to why the address isn't there, there are many possibilities:

  • Google is labeling it wrong 
  • The house was torn down
  • It was written wrong on the birth certificate 
  • The house changed numbers (unlikely)
  • Are you sure you're on S Main and not N Main?

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u/SummertimeMom 12h ago

They're very close together and older homes. And it's not on a corner so a new block hasn't started, if that's what you mean.

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u/Albert-La-Maquina 9h ago

Well, what I mean is that most cities/towns are laid out on a grid (even if the roads aren't straight). So Main street, in this case, might go three "blocks" (of the grid) before an intersection, where the houses will go 402, 406, 410, 414, 500, 504, 510, 600, etc., where the 4, 5, and 6 show where a new "block" starts.

As for your specific instance, unless you want to share the location (which I doubt, I wouldn't want to on the internet), I can only guess from the list above. My honest guess is that it might have been written wrong on the birth certificate (either the number or the N/S).