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Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by neffy on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @08:46PM (#25577394)
It seems like the obvious solution to this would be for Google to provide a sensible way to accept corrections to their maps.

We had to get a change made to Google maps to prevent people getting killed here, and it took national news, and personal contacts within the organisation.

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by s0rce on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @08:55PM (#25577457)
In the US its pretty easy to submit corrections. I've submitted a few corrections on US public lands but now I usually don't bother and just update open street map instead.
Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by cmroanirgo on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @09:09PM (#25577548)
I have submitted many glaring fixes, often multiple times for when it continues to be a problem, over months... and almost never is it fixed.
Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by mark-r on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @11:39PM (#25578615)
I once submitted a correction for the exact location of a public park. The correction looked like it was applied, but when I looked later it had been reverted.
Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by londons_explore on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:52AM (#25580234)
The data pipelines for maps can be very long - certain changes might take 6 months or more to be applied, because the computation required to rebuild certain things is massive, and it isn't worth doing simply because some street edge moved by a few centimeters.
Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by mark-r on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:21AM (#25582973)
This wasn't a few centimeters - I had trouble finding the park because Google had it a couple of blocks away from its actual location.
Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by oska on Sunday January 03, 2021 @05:11AM (#25620851)
> and just update open street map instead

I think this is the right approach. Why do free ground-proofing for a for-profit company? (Who is also so unresponsive). Better to submit fixes to a community project.

Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by jackvalentine on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @06:33AM (#25580818)
"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" is quote from Hamlet :)