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I’m all for more map competition with Google, but I’m wary of what it means for correcting rural/suburban addresses. I have a friend whose address didn’t prope
by antiterra 4y ago
I’m all for more map competition with Google, but I’m wary of what it means for correcting rural/suburban addresses.
I have a friend whose address didn’t properly exist in OSM, which resulted in packages regularly being undeliverable from Amazon and the like. I helped submit a change that mostly fixed the delivery issue. However, it’s been years and the change has never propagated to Bing, and my direct change requests to MS have been ignored.
As another example, someone/someapp decided that the road I live on should be Mystreet Dr. instead of just Mystreet. Now I run into all kinds of ‘this address looks incorrect!’ validation errors when I use the correct name. Even worse, the municipal legislation to change my street name missed some procedural steps. So, some maps, including my car’s nag, have it as Oldstreetname. This may be technically correct, but no one calls it or knows it to be Oldstreetname and Oldstreetname is definitely not on any road signs. I also have no idea what data source my car’s nav is using, so U don’t know how to correct it.
- plonk 4y ago> I helped submit a change that mostly fixed the delivery issue. However, it’s been years and the change has never propagated to Bing Note that Bing has their own database and doesn't just repackage OSM. Keeping accurate and up-to-date addresses for the whole world is impossible to do manually. I think initiatives like the one described here can make it easier to correlate multiple sources and fix this kind of errors.