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Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app (www.engadget.com)
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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

Even when they are up to date the search blows.

I tried to find something the other day and just because it's funny here are the results. The business is called X's Y but in osm it's stored as Xs, no apostrophe.

  • osmand: no results
  • magic earth: finds Xs, fails X's-- obviously humans recognize this as identical so the current search algo will never reliably find this store regardless of data entry
  • comaps: no results, when I added the full real name (X's Y, it showed me Ya terrace, Y with one letter swapped avenue, etc)

So you tell me, if it can't find a restaurant for which it has existing data, why is it the users' fault for not collecting more data?

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

For me it works perfectly. Try out Organic Maps or one of its forks then?

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

That's comaps now that organic is persona non grata

I don't really know what happened but when your app only works with community support and the community hates you enough to hard fork the app, it's time to switch.

[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Might be worth looking deeper into it though, in why the forkers hate the dev.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 21 hours ago

I'm pretty sure they used the word shareholder value one too many times and people brought out the noose.

[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

sure. doesn't change the problem, though

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