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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).
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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.
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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.
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