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Why would I bother checking Google Maps? But basically, yeah. If Google wants my expertise and data collection ability, they can pay me for it. As it stands now
by ocdtrekkie 5y ago
Why would I bother checking Google Maps? But basically, yeah. If Google wants my expertise and data collection ability, they can pay me for it. As it stands now they just cold call businesses and ask them with an AI thing.
- nine_k 5y agoWhat other source would you rather check?
- pietervdvn 5y agoOpenStreetMap?
- nine_k 5y agoOkay! I just opened OsmAnd and looked up my local supermarket. Sadly, no work hours. And this is a very popular supermarket right next to a train station in central Brooklyn, NY. The thing is that business owners do update the info on Google Maps, and have an incentive to do so, but only volunteers update OSM. OSM shines where businesses don't care but volunteers do: trails in a park, non-commercial POIs, etc.
- ocdtrekkie 5y agoI always check the actual website of the business in question. Search engines are wrong like 40% of the time in my experience.
- reaperducer 5y agoAt a company my wife worked for, the social media department spent half its time fixing store hours, addresses, and map locations in Google Maps and Apple Maps. I guess it's nice that ordinary people try to do these updates for Big G and Apple. But they're often wrong, or they presume a one-day change is a permanent change, or that it applies to every location on the planet.