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• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And the local community keeps locations up to date

  Seen big cities that are great in mapping every flower pot, but have restaurants and shops that don’t exist for over half a decade

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  • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Even when they are up to date the search blows.

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    • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      For me it works perfectly. Try out Organic Maps then?

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      • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s comaps now that organic is persona non grata

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  • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The only difference between these maps and their data is the effort by the community to update it. Google doesn’t pay people to update places, they entice them with points and advertising. Google and Apple maps would be no different from OSM if no one updated them

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      sure. doesn’t change the problem, though

      (if more people used Street Complete, it would make the problem a lot better, though)

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• Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Google maps only ever knew where you were going because Ingress players and Google “local guides” filled in all the data for them.

  Update the out of date data. Its not hard and the more people use it the more accurate the places data will be.

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  • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You can complain about why google works better if you want to, but it still does.

    Your response also ignores the fundamental problem: even when the data is in open street maps, the search still sucks. No, I didn’t mean any of 20 things in Italy, I meant the restaurant a mile away.

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    • Routhinator@startrek.website ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I use OSMAnd and the search is a lot better, not sure what client you are using.

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      • balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh I’m running osmand~ and comaps and magic earth.

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