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[–] 65 points 2 years ago (18 children)

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).

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (10 children)

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

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    We had this same problem and did just this. 3 years later still no changes. Until my dad happened to be complaining about it at a party and was introduced to a friend of a friend that worked at Google with the maps team. Was finally fixed a week later. So yea a path exists but 3 years is a long time to wait for a simple fix.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I swear they use the Maps Contributor ratings to determine how quickly they make changes.

    I've not had any issues getting changes made in a timely manner when I suggest them because I've left a bunch of reviews and photos for places I've visited.

    If you never leave reviews or photos, they probably don't trust your suggestions. That's just my guess though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    A few months ago I reported a missing section of road where I'm from and they corrected it in like a couple of weeks. Maybe it depends on how many people reports the same thing? IDK

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    That seems like a tricky one to moderate. I’m sure they are worried about things being set and forgotten and never repealed.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I understand why, but I also have examples of compromises;

    • Set a marker, it expires after a certain timeperiod. Users "validate" that the hindrance is still there, resetting the timer.
    • Set a marker, "Hindrance here at 2023-11-03"
      • "Expected end"
        • Today
        • This week
        • This month
        • Later (Marked hindrance disappear some time after "Expected end" if no users validate that it's still there, with new "Expected end".

    Just some thoughts.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That does seem like a good system for structuring things for users with good intent.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    users with good intent

    Oh right, it could easily be abused by traffic trolls. Didn't cross my mind, sometimes my faith in other people are unreasonably high.

    Perhaps some sort of validation system, if two users report the same temporary hindrance? TBH I can't be bothered to work out a fool-proof system for a hypothetical solution I doubt will ever be implemented hah.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 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

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