Google Maps has become an eyesore

Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by lancesells on Monday August 07, 2023 @08:20AM (#37033418)

FWIW Apple does the same thing to me in my neighborhood. I live in Brooklyn where there are restaurants on every block but it'll zoom out and show ~15 restaurants scattered over a mile with half in Manhattan. Pretty unusable.

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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by rattray on Monday August 07, 2023 @09:01AM (#37033830)

Have you found anything better for the area? This frustrates me too...

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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by Symbiote on Monday August 07, 2023 @09:57AM (#37034543)

OpenStreetMap has at least some of the data: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/40.67540/-73.95641

so an interface could be made to present it better: without being zoomed in so much, with filters and so on.

I know of https://www.toiletmap.org.uk/ which does this for public toilets.

I just found this which has an example for restaurants in one town: http://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/where-to-eat-in-middlebu...

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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by Ycdr4thfdd on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:44AM (#37050760)

I love OSM and use it all the time for hiking, but even though their restaurant and hotel listings have good coverage, they're sadly not much use to me without the reviews.

Short of scraping reviews from Google and importing them into OSM for the area in which I'm traveling, I'm not sure there is a good short-term solution.

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Re:Google Maps has become an eyesore by manicennui on Monday August 07, 2023 @10:55AM (#37035330)

I don't think that they understand how people in NYC and Chicago live. It is designed for people who are driving everywhere.

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