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kitns & tamsyn & tails, oh my!

@Wuzzy i didn't have any choice in the matter. too many couriers rely on Google Maps... and thus kept going to the wrong house with my parcels. which wouldn't have been so bad if the people living there hadn't just gone "yeah, i'll have that" whenever it happened...

26 Sep 2023 at 20:06 | Wall-to-wall | Open on toot.cat
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kitns & tamsyn & tails, oh my!

@Wuzzy and it still took me several goes over a couple of years to get google to listen and correct their addresses

26 Sep 2023 at 20:13 | Open on toot.cat
Amgine

@kitsune @Wuzzy

Add your corrections to #osm.

Google slurps down their data faster than you can type, and your corrections will be incorporated into Google's maps.

And Google gets a lot of its data from your levels of government, who build that open data with your tax dollars. If Google has it wrong, likely some level of your government has that error.

27 Sep 2023 at 0:18 | Open on mstdn.ca
kitns & tamsyn & tails, oh my!

@amgine @Wuzzy i didn't need to - OSM was already correct.

(also, please note that i don't live in a country where tax is paid in dollars)

27 Sep 2023 at 0:43 | Open on toot.cat
Amgine

@kitsune @Wuzzy

Apologies for the assumptions.

27 Sep 2023 at 0:45 | Open on mstdn.ca
Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@amgine @kitsune @Wuzzy

here in the UK there is a paradox - the public sector does work closely with OSM and its increasingly used on govt websites, whilst private companies (particularly small businesses) still use Google as they are locked into the adtech ecosystem (especially the reviews)

I've contributed to both over the years, the only issue I have with Streetcomplete is I don't want to dox myself by OSM contributions too close to home or work (which is an issue for many folk)

27 Sep 2023 at 10:38 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Luna Saphira Dragofelis
@vfrmedia @amgine @kitsune @Wuzzy what about making an anonymous/pseudonymous OSM account not linked to your other identities? That seems like it might solve the doxing issue
27 Sep 2023 at 11:08 | Open on fedi.criminallycute.fi
lori

@kitsune @Wuzzy ironically that is the exact reason i first got into openstreetmap, because some local food delivery places were using it for their data and my entire neighborhood was not on there

26 Sep 2023 at 23:01 | Open on hackers.town
ZXGuesser

@kitsune @Wuzzy it was the opposite way round for me.
I got fed up with their house numbers being complete garbage after a huge supermarket delivery van drove up the drive one rainy night and got itself wedged because the driver wouldn't trust that I could see how much space (loads) he had behind him and back up along the line he'd come in on to my instructions.
I just gave up in the end and left him to shuffle back and forth the dark for ten minutes 🤷‍♂️​

It similarly took several attempts to fix, I seem to remember I had to move all the affected house numbers around one at a time like a solitaire puzzle in the end.

@kitsune @Wuzzy it was the opposite way round for me.
I got fed up with their house numbers being complete garbage after a huge supermarket delivery van drove up the drive one rainy night and got itself wedged because the driver wouldn't trust that I could see how much space (loads) he had behind him and back up along the line he'd come in on to my instructions.
I just gave up in the end and left him to shuffle back and forth the dark for ten minutes 🤷‍♂️​

26 Sep 2023 at 23:02 | Open on oldbytes.space
tudza

@kitsune @Wuzzy In the case of Amazon, it was Amazon's fault. We were next to a small warehouse run by Microsoft which must have been set to receive Amazon shipments at their main office 10 or so miles down the road. It proved impossible to get Amazon to fix this I I had to have everything delivered to Amazon lockers.

27 Sep 2023 at 4:09 | Open on mastodon.cloud
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