• @redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    322 years ago

    At least with open street map, you can login to openstreetmap.org/edit and mark the bad road as private/gated or even delete it entirely. I did it on a bad road segment in my neighborhood and ride-sharing drivers no longer made wrong turns there (Grab apparently uses OSM instead of Google Maps data).

    • @ryry1985@lemmy.world
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      122 years ago

      You can actually do this with Google maps too. It can take time for them to actually make changes though

      • @nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
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        22 years ago

        I’m always divided about it. At one hand, I want to help people not getting lost, but at the other, I don’t want to contribute to google.

      • @sep@lemmy.world
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        22 years ago

        How? Every single adress is wrong on google for the whole muncipiality since they standarized the road numbering 3 years ago.

    • Stantana
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      32 years ago

      Crowdsourcing is nice but I’m not happy about the “don’t mark temporary hindrances” thing in OSM, some of them last for months and I can’t warn others. Sometimes I even forget the hindrance myself and feel real unsmart dumb.

    • credit crazy
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      12 years ago

      I may not longer live in Vermont but man I’ve been wanting to get Google maps updated on all the roads that no longer exists also now I live in Florida I’m finding none of the bike lanes are recognized

    • /home/pineapplelover
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      2 years ago

      Nice. The only place I know uses Grab is Vietnam and other se asian countries like maybe Indonesia