Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore
by CydeWeys on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:21AM
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It takes serious funding to make an excellent mapping app that contains worldwide business info, and a whole hell of a lot of paid review staff. A non-profit/charity can't really tackle this well. And since having a good mapping app is so important to the use of a smartphone generally, it makes sense for the two major smartphone OS vendors to each have a platform-standard mapping app.
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I'm pretty sure you could use AI these days, to replicate the accuracy of Google Anything.
And there isn't a paid review staff, people who filter maybe, but Google doesn't review anything.
Every single point here is wrong.
Mapping is a data collection/sanitization and content moderation problem. You need a lot of data, much of it user-submitted, and you have a lot of bad actors constantly trying to feed in bad data. I don't see where AI comes in here except maybe for route optimization, which is a tiny percentage of what a mapping app actually does. A mapping app is mostly just a huge database of incredibly useful info that needs to be true (and LLMs cannot help there, they just make shit up).