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

• titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t want to be the change to make it happen. I don’t want to be the beta tester of a product that’s supposed to be getting me around. What I want is I want a product that works I want something that functions when I need it to. When I go to an area that I am unfamiliar with and I’m using maps to try to find a house location a business whatever it is I don’t want to have to go in and beta test somebody else’s shit. That’s how Matt’s work.

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  • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Then stop whining about a community project and fucking buy a physical map.

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    • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or, I just use Google maps. The point of my bitching is you can’t use open street maps, and expect it to actually be usable. So telling someone to use it, for 911 purposes it’s useless. Read the fucking thread jackass.

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  • tomatolung@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    An ironic twist to the tragedy of the commons.

    Separately, you should read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State and look at the context of why things are unfamiliar in the first place.

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  • Hueristic_Autistic@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well we also have to take solar flares and GPS satellites into account.

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    • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Biggest issue I had, was my own address wasn’t accurate. Like didn’t exist. The one they showed at my house, was inaccurate. So if I can’t even map my own house, then if I go into a place I’m not familiar with…

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