Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps

• Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My test search for the UPS store up the street sent me 4km away. So…not great.

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Add it to OSM?

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  • moakley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That solves the problem this time, but it doesn’t help if I’m trying to navigate somewhere new.

    If it doesn’t have the address for a 30-year-old house in a major metropolitan area, then I just don’t think it’s a viable replacement for Google Maps, unfortunately.

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    • superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Every time I try to navigate to an address that’s missing in OSM, I just navigate to the street instead. It’s not a big deal.
      And when I have 5 minutes of free time, I add the address.

      That’s how OSM works. There isn’t a dev or company to blame, you can literally fix the missing data yourself. And that’s the only way it works.

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    • ArtVandelay@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I wish OSM had the resources to make something akin to Pokemon Go but instead of capturing something, it adds it to the database.

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      • vatlark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You are in luck my friend: streetcomplete.app

        They have made it super easy and fun. I have been playing it for nearly a year and have made a pretty big dent in my local dense metro area.

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