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People kept turning up at this guy's house wanting pizza due to a Google Maps error

The Australian’s house had been labelled as a pop-up pizzeria.
The Australian’s house had been labelled as a pop-up pizzeria. The Australian’s house had been labelled as a pop-up pizzeria.

An Australian man was visited by a string of strangers turning up to his home hoping for pizza.

Michael McElwee, 69, was first approached by a man wanting to deliver magazines to a pizza place, but shrugged off the visit thinking they had the wrong address, according to ABC Radio Darwin.

But then another person knocked on his door asking about a job, leading McElwee to realise it was no strange coincidence.

Corrected pizza location
Corrected pizza location
Google was quick to correct the pizzeria’s location as shown (Google Maps)

The Darwin resident learned Google Maps had made an error in its navigation service and had labelled his home as pop-up pizzeria Cucina Sotto Le Stelle, which opens in a nearby park throughout certain times of the year.

McElwee told ABC Radio Darwin: “It is like getting your identity stolen. Your house has been stolen and put in as a pizza shop.”

Errors on the map aren’t an uncommon occurrence and can be sorted by reporting them to Google.

A Google spokeswoman told ABC Radio Darwin they were aware of the issue and have since fixed the error.