Help, I'm disappearing!

When we first moved here, our address didn't exist in Google Maps, nor could anything but dirt be seen in the satellite images. That changed soon enough and for some time now I've been able to plug in my home address as a starting point for directions.

A year or so ago, I started having a little trouble with that. The reason was because someone I do business with added me to a user generated map. From that point on, Google saw my address as a business address, and would react by asking "Did you mean A.P. Lawrence?". I'd just click on that and everything would be fine.

The other day I noticed that I couldn't do that. Google Maps insists that my address simply does not exist. Indeed, if I summon up a map of the town, the whole street has disappeared! It's still visible in the satellite view, as is my house and even the golf cart parked in my driveway, but the map view shows empty space.

Yahoo still knows we are here. I don't LIKE Yahoo maps, but I'm stuck with them for now. It's not all that critical; I only use these as a failsafe for my car's GPS, but it is a bit unsettling to have disappeared.

Interestingly, one of my neighbors ( who also runs a business from his home) does appear in the business listings. He's at the top of the page, even though our street no longer exists. Why is he still there but I am not? Who knows? Why does google show addresses in other States when I have specifically given both a town, a State and a zip code? How can Google have maps of a street for several years and not have them now? I do not know.

Perhaps Google knows something I do not. We are on the amorphous edges of the supposedly spooky Bridgewater Triangle ; perhaps we are slowly being sucked into another dimension? If so, it's been grand and I will write if I can.

There is a "Report a problem" link at the bottom of the Google page. I clicked on that and explained the vanishing of my street. We'll see how long it takes for Google to find us again.