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This is what happened when they cut back on staff maintaining map accuracy and went to the community model with MapMaker. This team was way larger than 200 dur

This is what happened when they cut back on staff maintaining map accuracy and went to the community model with MapMaker. This team was way larger than 200 during my time there a decade ago and guess what? 2 years and you get the boot because they don't wanna pay to hire people who could actually do the work consistently. I loved working on POIs and Local. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/technology/google-maps-workers-office.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/23/technology/google-maps-wo... Apple Maps is eating their lunch right now and OSM is way prettier. Google tried to focus on charging large businesses like home depot to do internal store mapping instead of getting the best data they could for routing, the internal rule was if its within 100 feet it was close enough.

mmanfrin 3y ago
> Apple Maps is eating their lunch right now Source? Literally every single person I know on iOS still uses Google Maps because it is significantly better.
ak217 3y ago
Just to make this more explicit for those following along... this is just another aspect of Google's TVC (temporary, vendor and contractor) caste system. Google's full-time workforce is supported by a larger shadow workforce of contractors who are treated as disposable and routinely denied basic workplace protections. I know TVCs who were illegally denied access to basic workplace facilities like bathrooms while required to work at a Google office. (I do think Google Maps is still generally better than Apple Maps and OSM, but I want the TVC situation to be recognized.)