Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop...
by s0rce on Tuesday December 29, 2020 @08:55PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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> 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
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"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" is quote from Hamlet :)
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.