Re:Drivers followed a Google Maps detour and ended up stuck ...
by JetSpiegel on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:42PM
(#20299119)
> Is there any way to report corrections to Google maps?
Sell all your property, move to India and get a job on their equivalent version of Mechanical Turk.
Or you can install OsmAnd and use the OSM dataset, which is not as comprehensive, but it doesn't many lies. At most, outdated data.
Re:Drivers followed a Google Maps detour and ended up stuck ...
by aidenn0 on Friday June 28, 2019 @12:16AM
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I had OSMAnd try to navigate me to a wrong-way street (taking the offramp rather than the onramp when trying to get on the freeway on a parclo. FWIW, the data was corrected before I could get to a computer though.
Re:Drivers followed a Google Maps detour and ended up stuck ...
by sb057 on Thursday June 27, 2019 @10:04PM
(#20300881)
If you ignore those damned TIGER imports, at least...
Re:Drivers followed a Google Maps detour and ended up stuck ...
by acdha on Friday July 05, 2019 @04:41PM
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The desktop and iOS apps have feedback reporting which I've used for that before. I got an email from them noting that my correction had been accepted and within a week or so noticed far fewer people making an illegal left turn on a major road near us.
It isn't that I can't easily solve these problems if I'm looking at the map, but since it is incapable of having me make a left turn it will often plot an "optimal" route that is 15 minutes longer than it should be, because the real optimal route looks like it takes longer due to the routing error. Not to mention that it often confuses delivery drivers. Note, that the incorrect route typically comes from the Android version of Google maps, but if I go on the web interface the route will be ok.