Correcting Meeting House Address
Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 9:38 am
I would like to know what I need to correct one of our meeting house addresses. If someone can help with this I would be grateful.
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Do you have first-hand knowledge of this, or can someone else verify this?eblood66 wrote:Meetinghouse addresses come from the FMAT database which is maintained by the FM group. To make corrections you need to contact your FM group (usually through your Physical Facilities Representative who is usually a high counselor) and ask them make the correction.
No, I don't have first-hand knowledge. I'm going off reports from the forum over the years.nikk3hi3tala wrote:Do you have first-hand knowledge of this, or can someone else verify this?eblood66 wrote:Meetinghouse addresses come from the FMAT database which is maintained by the FM group. To make corrections you need to contact your FM group (usually through your Physical Facilities Representative who is usually a high counselor) and ask them make the correction.
jonesrk is the CDOL developer so he usually is very knowledgeable about these things and might chime in again.nikk3hi3tala wrote:Due to a renovation, our ward is meeting in another meetinghouse. The address is incorrect in the maps.lds.org. A FM group employee said to me that FMAT gets its location information from GPM system. They have done the change to GPM several weeks ago, and maps still shows the old address. He was wondering if there is some other source for the maps. I don't know what that could be, since CDOL has the correct address too.
Let me know which unit it is and I'll talk to the maps guys and see what the problem is. As far as I know the only two sources for the addresses are FMAT/GPM and CDOL.nikk3hi3tala wrote:Do you have first-hand knowledge of this, or can someone else verify this?eblood66 wrote:Meetinghouse addresses come from the FMAT database which is maintained by the FM group. To make corrections you need to contact your FM group (usually through your Physical Facilities Representative who is usually a high counselor) and ask them make the correction.
Due to a renovation, our ward is meeting in another meetinghouse. The address is incorrect in the maps.lds.org. A FM group employee said to me that FMAT gets its location information from GPM system. They have done the change to GPM several weeks ago, and maps still shows the old address. He was wondering if there is some other source for the maps. I don't know what that could be, since CDOL has the correct address too.
From what I can see in my view into GPM the address there is not the same one that is in CDOL.nikk3hi3tala wrote:Thanks eblood66 and jonesrk for your help.
jonesrk, I send you a PM.
I told this to the FM people and they apparently contacted some higher-ups. This is the response they got from the higher-ups:jonesrk wrote: From what I can see in my view into GPM the address there is not the same one that is in CDOL.
I find this really strange and annoying. There should be a way to move the ward without moving the meetinghouse.In my knowledge, when a unit is meeting in a temporary place we don’t have to change the address of the official meetinghouse, because the BUILDING didn’t actually move anywhere. It is the WARD that is meeting somewhere else.
When units are meeting somewhere else, there is no possibility of changing the address in the meetinghouse locator, other than changing the address of the whole meetinghouse, but we are not supposed to do that.
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[Previously in similar cases,] we simply attached signs to the original meetinghouse doors, indicating the location of the place where the Ward was meeting at the moment.
I agree that the systems maybe might have a way to saying that the Ward is temporarily meeting somewhere, but apparently there is not.
They don't actually change the building address, but they assign units to buildings. Maybe that is the misunderstanding, unless reassigning buildings for short periods of time causes issues.nikk3hi3tala wrote:I told this to the FM people and they apparently contacted some higher-ups. This is the response they got from the higher-ups:jonesrk wrote: From what I can see in my view into GPM the address there is not the same one that is in CDOL.I find this really strange and annoying. There should be a way to move the ward without moving the meetinghouse.In my knowledge, when a unit is meeting in a temporary place we don’t have to change the address of the official meetinghouse, because the BUILDING didn’t actually move anywhere. It is the WARD that is meeting somewhere else.
When units are meeting somewhere else, there is no possibility of changing the address in the meetinghouse locator, other than changing the address of the whole meetinghouse, but we are not supposed to do that.
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[Previously in similar cases,] we simply attached signs to the original meetinghouse doors, indicating the location of the place where the Ward was meeting at the moment.
I agree that the systems maybe might have a way to saying that the Ward is temporarily meeting somewhere, but apparently there is not.
Our temporarily closed meetinghouse is situated in the downtown and close to the harbors, where cruise ships stop. It is the most popular place for tourist to go. During the summer season we usually have dozens of tourists coming to our meetings. Now they will have to first go to the wrong place to see a note that tells that the ward is meeting somewhere else.