"NY" wrote in message
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"williamwright" wrote in message
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On 01/05/2020 12:46, Pancho wrote:
On 30/04/2020 21:14, ARW wrote:
It's a house in Fishlake on Trundle Lane.

My directions were "It's got a caravan on the drive and it's on a left
hand bend so it will not be hard to find"

No house number no house name..



53°36'49.4"N 1°01'08.8"W

Took 90 secs. You probably should have asked an apprentice.

Very clever, but the point is that people should give tradesmen a proper
address.

I've had a number of people who live in rural areas who give me similarly
vague "addresses" when I'm going to fix their computer. I always try to
get a proper postal address (eg house number/name and postcode), and look
the house up on Google Streetview beforehand so I know what I'm looking
out for.

I had one guy who seemed reluctant to give me the actual house name, and
when he gave it me, he said "It's called Willow Cottage, but that won't
help you because there isn't a sign on the gate". I thought "how the F do
you expect the emergency services to find you if you need an ambulance in
a hurry?".

My ploy of using Google does sometimes fall foul of Google's blurring of
car number plates, because that often blurs signs with house number/name.
Numbers are easy because if you find neighbours whose signs are not
blurred, you can count houses from them, and interpolate.

The best way of finding a house is if there's a village map. I found a
site that has PDF maps for a lot of villages in parts of North and East
Yorkshire. http://colinday.co.uk/maps/NorthYorks.shtml

Why dont you get them to send their location by text from their smartphone
?