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Given Waze / Maps is only ever as good as the available data, I wonder if the author took a moment to report the closed roads and open highway. You can complain

Given Waze / Maps is only ever as good as the available data, I wonder if the author took a moment to report the closed roads and open highway. You can complain about maps not being all knowing, but did they do the minimum to help others? At this point it's a global social activity. Maps changes are processed quite quickly got roads.

theamk 2y ago
I don't know of any way to report "open highway" to Google Maps at all. There is a way to report road closure in the Google Maps app, but it does not change the map at all - it puts the red "stop" sign, and it's intended for temporary road closures. It would not been appropriate for reporting OP's road which was open, but required high-clearance vehicle to navigate. I don't know why you call Google Map editing is "a global social activity" -- my experience is just the opposite. Google Maps data sources are opaque and impenetrable, some streets might stay out of date for years, while the next town over is updated very quickly. It's also full of glitches (for example there was a multiple-weeks interval where it thought a small segment of major street near me was closed, so every route had useless detour around it)
- viraptor 2y ago
  > I don't know of any way to report "open highway" to Google Maps at all. Long press, scroll, "report a problem on ...". I sent multiple weird ones and they all got actioned. > I don't know why you call Google Map editing is "a global social activity" Because we all use it directly or indirectly. It's a really bad situation that it's often the default and it can be incorrect and it's all private and closed. We can complain about it and use OSM or something else. But at some point your travel will depend on how correct Google Maps is in this area. And everyone collectively fixing it up makes your life a tiny bit less bad. I contribute to OSM more, but still fix the roads on Google Maps in my area and add photos for playgrounds. I'm not going to get people to switch just because of trivial inconveniences in gmaps.

theamk 2y ago

I don't know of any way to report "open highway" to Google Maps at all. There is a way to report road closure in the Google Maps app, but it does not change the map at all - it puts the red "stop" sign, and it's intended for temporary road closures. It would not been appropriate for reporting OP's road which was open, but required high-clearance vehicle to navigate. I don't know why you call Google Map editing is "a global social activity" -- my experience is just the opposite. Google Maps data sources are opaque and impenetrable, some streets might stay out of date for years, while the next town over is updated very quickly. It's also full of glitches (for example there was a multiple-weeks interval where it thought a small segment of major street near me was closed, so every route had useless detour around it)

viraptor 2y ago
> I don't know of any way to report "open highway" to Google Maps at all. Long press, scroll, "report a problem on ...". I sent multiple weird ones and they all got actioned. > I don't know why you call Google Map editing is "a global social activity" Because we all use it directly or indirectly. It's a really bad situation that it's often the default and it can be incorrect and it's all private and closed. We can complain about it and use OSM or something else. But at some point your travel will depend on how correct Google Maps is in this area. And everyone collectively fixing it up makes your life a tiny bit less bad. I contribute to OSM more, but still fix the roads on Google Maps in my area and add photos for playgrounds. I'm not going to get people to switch just because of trivial inconveniences in gmaps.