• lol_idk@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    56 comments and nothing about the fact that you can submit edits to Google if the map is wrong

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        9 months ago

        I have thousands of edits on OSM for over a decade, but people getting lost is less cool than spending 3 minutes trying to help people

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        9 months ago

        Normally I’d agree with you but a lot of people use Google and driving for a few hours in the wrong direction in Tasmania can kill you. Fixing something like this might well be a humanitarian action.

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      I did that once, they rejected it. Wasn’t until they eventually did another pass for updated photos did they update it.

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      I had to submit a trail edit 4 times to make it stick after many others had done the same already. You can only do what you can do. I always tell them they are liable for any incident if they have prior knowledge as if that would make a difference.

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      I heard stories about that feature, apparently sometimes they accept the changes and then revert them again for some reason. Like sometimes the wrong information comes from the government that classified a dirt road as a highway and Google eventually reverts any changes because they trust the government data more.