Victor at Villa y Puerto de Garachico reports that the post office and Grafcan (the public company who provided the [previously censored] imagery for Google) are currently collaborating on a project to revise the street maps of El Tanque, Garachico y Buenavista del Norte, according to a post office press release.
This is part of an island-wide project that began in 2004 in Santa Cruz, followed by La Orotava, to update all of the data for the territory of Tenerife.
The post office are correcting house numbers and providing data on missing street name plates, while Grafcan are providing town halls with the information so that corrections can be made and, the post office with the new plans so they can study the logistics of improving the mail delivery process.
Just think, if they get all of this organized, it may finally be possible to know one's actual, proper address in Tenerife - something that is currently quite rare.
On the negative side, anything that smacks of efficiency could be said to be ruining the time-honoured, traditional way of doing things on the island.
In truth, I think this indicates that Tenerife is missing me. We had a perfectly good system going while I lived in the district: if the post lady didn't know where something was, or if a letter was addressed to a "foreign sounding" name, she just brought it to see if I could translate/locate/solve it! 
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