Re:Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation
by asdff on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @05:08PM
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The big pain point imo is that apple maps doesn't crawl for local business information as well as google. Many local businesses in LA do not show up on apple maps but have a presence on google maps. I wonder why apple maps engineers don't just crawl google maps and steal this data from them, I'm sure google would do the same.
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Re:Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation
by Schiendelman on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @09:03PM
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I think this is mostly that businesses don’t realize there are hundreds of millions of people using Apple Maps. It’s improving; it’s a tiny amount of work for them to get more customers, and they’re learning.
I use the “report an issue” link periodically to fix things.
Re:Google Maps now requires WiFi scanning to use navigation
by icefo on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @05:48PM
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Most map providers include some fake roads to fingerprint their map and Google probably does something similar for the businesses on Gmaps, so if they scraped the data it would be easy to prove they did it