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I'm always surprised how poor legibility the most used digital map has

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I'm always surprised how poor legibility the most used digital map has

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OpenStreetMap community@lemmy.mlEnglish · 2 years ago

One shows only a few shops, often the ones that pay the most, the other shows the true number of different places in the area.

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The problem with tags is they can go out of date so quickly, whereas most restaurants publish a menu on their website or ordering site, and google can pull info from that.

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