Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Depends on where you live, in the EU, openstreetmap.org is way more accurate than Google.

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  • ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And you can make a new hobby for yourself by updating things as you come across them

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    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      But there is nothing to update. They already did it all

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      • ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        the common alternative FOSS maps just don’t provide the same level of detail

        Then I guess OP doesn’t have any excuses. Or I guess you can use it as an excuse to see new places so you can map them, too.

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      • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Haha I wish

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• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  thats cool, just know youre part of the problem, not the solution.

  your reasoning for not leaving is exactly what they want to hear.

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  • whatstatersprecious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If the problem is a lack of suitable alternatives, that’s not the user’s fault. Google even snapped up Waze.

    They need to use something. You suggesting they should just go make their own Google Maps?

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    • possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      and Waze is still Israeli spyware.

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      • ALiteralCabbage@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        And owned by google to boot, no?

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They don’t need to, since OpenStreetMap already exists.

      They just need to do their part by contributing to it.

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      • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        No matter how much I contribute, OSM is so far behind google they’re not even comparable in any way.

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    • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why is it a map’s responsibility to list restaurant hours?

      The OP even said the restaurant has their own website where they list their hours. I’m fine with leaving it at that, personally.

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      • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You’re not wrong, the map isn’t really the right place for that. Yet the map should provide a way to get from the physical location to more information about the place (physical building and logical business entity)

        What’s the open equivalent of Yelp?

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  • LeapSecond@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So you’re part of the problem or… have no access to information. Do you realize how much more data Google has in some places? I contribute to osm every now and then but still use Google maps for navigation, it’s not even comparable.

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