Did you review places via Google Maps in the past? @mangroveReviews@mas.to now offers a way to import your past reviews, which means they will also appear in CoMaps in future maps!
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Last time a shopkeeper told me about its new hours, I asked did you update them in OpenStreetMap? Then I opened an app on my phone and did that with him.
I never really left reviews on Google but I’ve been trying to leave reviews as I go on Mangrove / MapComplete since it was integrated with CoMaps 😊
Eh deleted all my reviews after google accepted a claim that my 3* review of one shitty ass shop in Germany was defamation, ignored my response and removed it. Hell, I’d argue it was net positive review (otherwise wouldn’t be a 3* IMO), but the abuse of the system in Germany is wild and clearly Google doesn’t give a fuck just like the rest of their products.
Anyway still waiting for opportunity to “transfer” all my photos from google maps. Ever since they changed what counts as storage use in drive, I’ve used maps to store useful or nice photos from hikes/parks/nature that I didn’t necessarily wanna keep stored on the phone.
Edit: ooh this also does mention the export/import of photos. Guess I gotta try it!
All 12 of my reviews are imported. It’s not much, but it’s honest work!
In fact, scrape all of them and then delete then destructively
that seems like a great idea! though I can’t help since I’ve never left a review on Google
Aw man, now I almost regret deleting most of my 100+ reviews after they changed the name of Lake Ontario.
Holy shit, I didn’t notice that had happened. Fascinatingly stupid.
I wonder, if you’re in the US, is it changed changed for you?
As someone in Europe, the way they display it is
this
Lake Ontario (Lake America)
I am just curious if they went further, within the country.
What about reviews that are 12 years old, are they still worth the upload? Will it use the original date?
yes, it’ll use the original date!
@mangroveReviews@mas.to could you expand on what happens exactly when reviews are imported in for a POI that doesn’t exist in OpenStreetMap? I did see this portion: " Otherwise it is the first review of the place, at Google’s position.", but could you give more details?
Check out https://mas.to/@mangroveReviews/117574197861130489 for a general explanation of how the matching works!
Is there interop with OSM? Happy to see CC ownership of community work. OSM currently does the whole review thing, I’d love to see them work together
The reviews are of points in the OSM map, and they are published as open data with a permissive license so that they can used for anything. So it’s not a project associated with OSM, but they work perfectly together nevertheless. That’s the beauty of open data.
Reviews are out of scope for OSM
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