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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.
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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.
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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.
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