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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by iamacyborg on Monday August 07, 2023 @06:54AM (#37032787)
> Millions of tourists worldwide use GMaps to navigate around in foreign places and yet they have no option to see where the closest place to refill their bottles is? Especially in the summer?

It’s almost like this isn’t a thing folks are actually looking for.

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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by Symbiote on Monday August 07, 2023 @09:16AM (#37034027)
I thought to try searching "public toilet" in Copenhagen, which I'm sure is something tourists search for.

It does show a few of them, but it also shows an apartment complex miscategorized as one, and misses several within the city centre. They are shown with various names ("Toilet", "Public toilet", "Public toilet for men", "Public restroom") so I think this is crowdsourced, rather than anything Google has made an effort to map.

Although the interface of https://www.openstreetmap.org/ doesn't have a way to highlight them, other interfaces (phone apps etc) can, and OSM has much better coverage.

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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by mcpackieh on Monday August 07, 2023 @10:02AM (#37034589)
Why is it that whenever somebody comes up with a clear cut and reasonable shortcoming of a big tech product, there's a mass of sycophants that crawl out of the ground to say "nobody wants that, you're just a weirdo"?

Everybody drinks water. It often isn't intuitively obvious where you can find water. Even in city parks, water fountains may not be where you expect but often are where you wouldn't. Google maps also sucks at finding bathrooms. Everybody pisses, even cyborgs.

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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by iamacyborg on Monday August 07, 2023 @03:01PM (#37039143)
> Why is it that whenever somebody comes up with a clear cut and reasonable shortcoming of a big tech product

Is it reasonable though?

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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by mcpackieh on Monday August 07, 2023 @08:02PM (#37042657)
Sticking to the cyborg larp? I shouldn't need to explain the relevance of water to you twice.
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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by iamacyborg on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @05:42AM (#37046574)
The point isn't the relevance of water, but the relevance of a specific feature to a given app.

Should Google Maps show me every single public bench too in case I need to sit down?

How about if I'm an avid cyclist, should they also show me every single secure railing I can lock my bike against?

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