That’s odd. In my neighborhood probably 50% of houses have a 1/2 address in the back.
replyWe have had solicitors walk through our side yard convinced they are going to the 1/2 address (which we don’t have).
Maps seems to show them all correctly.
It's pretty messed up that the only way to "solve" this problem is by treating addresses that Google mishandles as uninhabitable, but I'd be lying if I didn't tell my wife I was concerned about living on a corner again when we were looking for houses to buy after that (luckily, the one we liked most and had our offer accepted for wasn't on a corner, and our plan is to never move again!)
replyIt really radicalized me on the "Programmers don't understand [x]" series of articles.
replyA lot of problems would just be solved by trust-but-verify information. If a user wants to put non-sense in a text box, that should be a 'them problem' but a service that presumes all email address end in .com or that a user doesn't know their own address is worse. With that said, I understand why services do it because the Venn diagram of "will type non-sense into a field then wonder why it didn't work" and "will email into support and be the reason someone drinks" is largely a circle.