As far as I know, Hawaii is the only place where this is a huge problem. I agree that it exists other places, but to say its unusable in several states is a stretch! I agree that TT is way to slow in addressing this problem and I would like to see them adjust the street search function as well. I had an addy in Queens NY with a dash and I ignored the dash and found the destination, no problem.
That Maggie is a good unit at a great price, no arguments there. Nice and slender, plus feature rich. What is the quality of the TTS voice like, is it tinny? Also, do you have power switch problems with it?
From Wikipedia - there are quite a few situations that TT needs to address in the US:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_numbering
United States of America
In much of North America, buildings are not numbered according to a simple sequence but rather according to distance from a given baseline. As a result, four- and five-digit addresses are common. Odd numbers are typically on one side of the street, evens on the other. In New England and the New York Metropolitan Area, however, a simple sequence is used much like that in European cities.
In cities with a grid plan of streets, addresses often increase by 100 for each cross street. Addresses may also correlate with a street-numbering system. Thus, in Cleveland, Ohio, a building with the address 900 Euclid Avenue would be at the corner of Euclid Avenue and 9th Street.
In San Francisco, parallel streets will sometimes be numbered in opposite directions. As an example, Broderick Street numbers ascend from south to north, while Masonic Avenue, just three blocks away, ascends from north to south.
Along the Overseas Highway in the Florida Keys, house numbers indicate their distance from Mile Marker 0 in Key West. The mileage is found by dividing the house number by one thousand (for example, 77220 Overseas Highway is 77.2 miles from Mile Marker 0).
Buildings in many rural areas in the United States used to lack these kind of addresses. Instead, an old rural address might have been simply "Rural route 3, Box 15." However, the adoption of 9-1-1 emergency systems has required the adoption of street names and house numbers in rural areas.
In areas of rural Wisconsin, the address layout of many counties features a baseline in one corner of the county, with numbers increasing from that point and appended with a cardinal direction; for instance, an address on an north-south road 45 blocks north from the baseline is written as 'N4500', while an address 45 blocks west from the baseline on a east-west road is shown as 'W4500'. Some counties and suburban communities (such as Waukesha and the Town and City of Cedarburg) use a two-part address for both directions for easier referencing within a map and the numbering system (N4500-W4500 for instance).
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California lacks any house numbering whatsoever. Houses are referred to, instead, as (for example) "Junipero 3 SW of 10th", meaning "The third house on the west side of Junipero south of 10th."
[edit] Block numbers
Example of a street sign indicating the block number.Block numbers are a system of assigning numbers based on distance rather than strictly sequentially. Typically, each block is assigned 100 numbers, such that the building numbers on that block vary only in the two least significant digits. For example, in Washington, D.C., the block of 7th Street, N.W., between D and E streets, N.W., is designated as the 400 block, meaning that building numbers on that block are in the range from 400 to 499 inclusive. It is common to indicate block numbers on street signs.
Some localities, such as the Borough of Queens in New York City, use a block numbering system in which a hyphen separates the hundreds digit from the tens digit. For example, a building number that might elsewhere be written 16709 is instead written 167-09. In most cases, the first number refers to the street, avenue, drive, etc. where the numbering begins. For example 99-40 63rd Road is numbered because the starting point was 99th Street. Likewise, an address on a perpendicular block would have its number starting with 63-XX. In Queens, unlike other areas, such as Los Angeles, where one may see numbers such as 16700 Sunset Blvd., for example, rarely is the 00 number used to refer to an address, but rather the numbering starts at -01 or -02 depending on the side of the block.
Some localities in Utah and Wisconsin have a more elaborate system of block numbering.[1][2] Such localities use compound block numbers to indicate the number of blocks from both the north-south and the east-west dividing lines. For example, an address in Utah might be of the form "226 N 3300 W" where other systems might use "226 33rd Ave NW". Such an address is in the northwest quadrant of the addressing system. Another system, used in Wisconsin, might use "N112 W16709 Mequon Rd" rather than "16709 W. Mequon Rd". This numbering system is based on the southeast corner of each county and is based on a grid that will increase when traveling in a northerly or westerly direction using N and W, respectively.[3] In Illinois, specifically in the Collar Counties surrounding Chicago, addresses in unincorporated and newly annexed areas are given according to their placement in a 1-square-mile quadrant relative to downtown Chicago. North-south streets use an address number beginning in N or S, and east-west streets use an address number beginning in W. The three-digit unique number that follows is assigned according to distance from the beginning of the quadrant. For example, "30W221 Butterfield Road" is in Naperville, 30 miles west of downtown Chicago.
