Comment on Man uses 99 phones to trick Google Maps into thinking there’s a traffic jam to prove a big point

huppakee@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

There was a neighborhood in the Netherlands near the beach that was being flooded by tourists looking to park their car, they complained about it but the local government didn’t listen to their concerns. So then they decided to take matters into their own hands and came up with a plan to continuously report road construction to Google. The result was that Google Maps no longer directed tourists into the neighbourhood, but this led to parking problems at the beach entrances but instead of building more parking spaces the municipality created signs telling drivers to turn their gps off.

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