If this refers to google maps on the web ... if one is looking for a location without luck, my guess it also uses google location which is a separate and broke

If this refers to google maps on the web ... if one is looking for a location without luck, my guess it also uses google location which is a separate and broken service. It's broken as in part either deliberately as a dark pattern or just because no one there cares, despite some of the time, the map actually having the right information hard coded into them. I only recently discovered ... or the penny dropped why various issues I'd been having in regard to being listed in a neighbouring suburb. I had bounced against the decline in google map information and accuracy for the last 10 years or so. In that same time most delivery services have stopped doing to the door deliveries out in my rural area because they use google maps, those that persist to try a to the door delivery and don't use a local driver in my area, usually waste a couple of hours driving up and down the road ignoring the road markers and preferring what their device is telling them. Sure I could make an account, hand over more private data and fix my own issue, but so many addresses I've looked up via google in my area are not right. I now tell services to use apple maps which seem to be on the money and ditch their google since it seems to be waiting for half the population to make accounts to sort out their address.