Moving to new address with airport extreme

Last year I moved across state. Yesterday I received an iPod touch. When I checked my location using the maps app the iPod touch told me that I was physically at the site of the home we moved away from 400 miles away. I suppose what is happening is that I have not put my new address in the airport extreme base station, but I'm not sure. Would you agree, and if so, how do I update that address in the airport extreme. I began to run the Airport setup utility and it asked if I wanted to create a new network - I actually didn't - I just wanted to put in a new address. How should I proceed? Of course, I may be totally off base with my solution. Thanks in advance for your help.

iPod Touch does access a database that helps it determine its location on the basis of known locations of WiFi access points it is connected to. For this scheme to work, the iPod touch needs to be in contact with a WiFi access point in its database - which are usually commercially run access points in urban areas.
As for your own Base Station - it won't be of much use in helping your iPod touch know where it is. WiFi access points like yours won't be in the database, and no - there is no such thing as an "address configuration" option on an Airport Base Station, so you can stop looking for it.

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