HELP US FIND YOU

In this age of computers and smartphones, Hampstead VFC uses Google Maps to speed our response to your location. Through a smartphone app called Active911, emergency calls appear in our fire apparatus on a tablet when the alarm is dispatched. This program also provides us mapping of the closest fire hydrant or drafting water source in the event it is needed. The emergency calls also appear on the firefighters’ and Command Staff’s smartphones, tablets, or computers and they receive information on the nature of the emergency and turn by turn directions from their current location to your home or business.

It is important that you check that Google Maps displays your address correctly!

Although Google Maps is mostly accurate, the map is often at least slightly off. To correct your address follow the instructions below.

To check your address, go to https://www.google.com/maps and enter your home address such as: ‘1234 Anywhere Street, Hampstead, MD 21074’.   If your home or business address is just off the named road or there is only one building on the driveway, the map marker should appear on your structure or where your driveway intersects the named road.  If you have a long driveway off the named road and there are multiple homes or business addresses on the same unnamed driveway, the marker should appear where your driveway ends at your address location.

To move an incorrect marker, put your map in satellite view by click on the Earth box in the lower left hand corner of the screen. Right click on the marker and choose ‘Report a data problem’ in the popup box then check the box for ‘Marker is placed incorrectly on the map’.

You can then use your mouse to drag the marker to where it should be by holding down the left mouse button, and then click on ‘Submit’.
If your location is not on the map at all, right click on the correct location and choose ‘Add a missing place’. Fill out the pop up form and click on ‘Submit’.

It will take some time, days to weeks, for your changes to appear on Google Maps.

Please make sure that you have an easily readable (day and night) address on your structure or driveway.

If you need assistance in correcting your address in google maps, email your address and phone number where you can be reached to mapping@hampsteadvfd.org. Make the subject line of the email: Active911/Google Maps Address Correction Assistance.