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1davidt8
Jan 1, 2009, 9:49 am

Last summer, I added a college campus bookstore to LT, but it did not have a street address, just a college building name and of course the city, state, and zip. Consequently the map didn't really show the location.

That bookstore is no longer shown on the Local page for my city. Any thoughts on why not? Should I just go ahead and add it again? I did have full information including their website and telephone number.

2lampbane
Jan 1, 2009, 4:52 pm

Did you search for the name? Which college bookstore was it, anyway?

3davidt8
Jan 2, 2009, 11:56 am

It turns out that if I click on Local after logging on, and I use the browser to Find "Lafayette College" it isn't there, and it isn't on the map at Easton, PA. But if I change the search at the upper left corner on PHILADELPHIA PA and 100 Miles, then Lafayette College appears on the map and on the browser search. Basically, I didn't quite understand how the Local page works.

There is still the minor difficulty that the map shows the bookstore in downtown Easton, when actually the bookstore is on the campus on the hill. No way to correct this, because the campus buildings are not street addresses.

4lampbane
Jan 2, 2009, 2:50 pm

However, you can check if the campus buildings *have* street addresses.

According to Google Maps, the Farinon Building is on 111 Quad Drive.

I've inputted that, let me know if the location is accurate.

5davidt8
Jan 4, 2009, 9:41 am

You have the location exactly right. I now see how to find it on Google Maps.

I see that the dot on the map only appears in the 100 mile search, because the location is 51 miles from Philadelphia, and therefore misses the 50 mile search.