• joenforcer
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    6 months ago

    Maps. There’s still unfortunately nothing better.

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      6 months ago

      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.

    • guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Yeah. I tried using OpenStreetMap for five minutes until I realised most of my city doesn’t have the house numbers mapped out.

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        6 months ago

        In my experience, google maps has the same issues in some areas,e.g. Tanger. OSM was way more reliable there. You could help fix those issues by contributing. I think it’s fun and you’ll get to know your neighborhood better

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      6 months ago

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

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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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      6 months ago

      I’m going to spend an hour happily contributing to openstreetmaps in response :P

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      6 months ago

      On iOS I find Apple Maps to be better in general. I don’t think Google maps is as much of a monopoly as it once was