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Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by visarga on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @01:19AM (#25579115)
Probably have to submit it to OSM and wait until Google loads their data into GMaps. /s
Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by SECProto on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @09:04AM (#25581734)
OSM uses a different, also incorrect, name for the road. At least the name OSM uses was correct at one point (about a decade ago - also when that feature was last edited).
Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by leokennis on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @02:10PM (#25584871)
At least on OSM you can change it yourself.
Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by SECProto on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @11:14PM (#25589511)
Indeed. I hesitate to change it manually though, as I know the (former) name of the road was done as part of a 911 upgrade in the early-mid 00's, and a lot of similarly semi-private roads renamed a few years after that. So OSM got their data from some official source a decade ago, and a number of roads throughout the locality are equally messed up by the lack of updates.
Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by dan-robertson on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @02:55AM (#25579567)
I think google don’t use OSM data.
Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by emteycz on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @03:04AM (#25579618)
Well and yet this is what I did and it worked, after around a year of waiting.
Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by Freak_NL on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:16AM (#25580017)
It is possible that whoever Google has hired for the local edits uses OSM as a reference in response to feedback received via Google Maps. Not explicitly of course, because this is strictly forbidden, both ways, due to license incompatibility. For OpenStreetMap this is a very important point, because well-meaning novice mappers copying streets or points-of-interest directly from a proprietary map put the project at risk of litigation. Google will likely have such a strong rule in their own internal documentation as well.

OSM strongly discourages the mapping of trap streets — fake streets that only exist on your map for unscrupulous competition to copy so you know that they did so — but it's possible that some mappers do put these on the map. I don't think one of the big proprietary maps has ever been caught copying one of these though.

Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by sabas_ge on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:45AM (#25580180)
Not trap streets but details (like small ponds in private areas) and misspellings were reportedly taken ispiration from over the years... :-)
Re:Google Maps changes a route after the drama of young peop... by redis_mlc on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:59AM (#25580659)
I can confirm that Google appears to import data from OSM.

I added a placemark in OSM in the middle of Bali, Indonesia for an Internet cafe a few years ago, and it's currently also in Google Maps. (The cafe has since been closed for a few years.)

What's interesting is that's why I added it to OSM - to get picked up by Google Maps. :)

What's even more interesting is that when I told people in SV that I was doing that, they told me since it was a copyright violation, Google Maps wouldn't do that. :) :)