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Doesn't matter how good their POI data is if they pollute the search results with Dunkin Donuts, Arby's, Burger King, McDonald's, and any other godforsaken chai
by dont__panic 4y ago
Doesn't matter how good their POI data is if they pollute the search results with Dunkin Donuts, Arby's, Burger King, McDonald's, and any other godforsaken chain restaurant who pays to be first in line. Especially on mobile, I find it very, very difficult to look through restaurant matches that search my criteria because:
- Maps won't show all of the results in the map view
- Maps prioritizes these kinds of chains that pay good money over more relevant restaurants (for instance, I searched "Cafe" in Boston last week, and both McDonalds and Dunkin Donuts were among the top 5 results. Not exactly the most relevant results)
- no matter how much you zoom in, Maps just won't show you certain businesses. I'm not sure if they haven't payed up enough protection money to Google, or if the business listing isn't optimized, or what... but it's a crap experience when I know there's a great business in a general area but every time I search, Google zooms me out to shove Wendy's in my face
Do other people experience these same issues with Google Maps? Am I somehow using the product wrong? I've been trying to contribute to OSM and use it instead when possible, but the POI data just isn't quite complete enough... and businesses almost never update their own hours on OSM.