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starman ( starman@programming.dev )  to > Greentext@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

Anon thinks about Google

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Anon thinks about Google

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starman ( starman@programming.dev )  to > Greentext@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago
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    Maps. There’s still unfortunately nothing better.

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      Helping to contribute to OpenStreetMap using Street Complete has the potential to change that.

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      And they’ve been neglecting that. There are a couple of street names that they have wrong, and I’ve been using the edit feature fruitlessly for over 8 years. I’ve included links to local business web sites with the new name of one, links to municipal web sites with the new name, geo-tagged photos of the street signs, and even links to the municipal ordinance that changed the names in 2003. It all goes into the same black hole.

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      Maps also has gone to shit. Complex routing including public transport is pretty much the only thing it still is useful for. For using maps as maps openstreetmap has been better for a long time, even before Google decided to dumb down their maps. For bicycle routing osm also is better nowadays as Google is missing most of the small paths.

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      Maps was crowdsourced like wikipedia. Still is.
      It will turn to shit as crowds migrate. And the crowds are migrating.

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