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Why does Google communicate like this? Anyone reviewing OraganicMaps will instantly judge it not to be some scam or malicious app. So why the completely useless
by Freak_NL 2y ago
Why does Google communicate like this? Anyone reviewing OraganicMaps will instantly judge it not to be some scam or malicious app. So why the completely useless message? Nowhere do they actually say what OrganicMaps is doing wrong.
I'm sure the answer is 'automated review process, humans are expensive', but it's really fucked up to see a huge corporation like Google just removing one of the two most well-known OpenStreetMap apps like that (the other being OsmAnd).
If you use Android: get free software apps like these from F-Droid.
- Freak_NL 2y agoConsidering the fact that OrganicMaps shows a map of the world, it might be something as daft as allowing children to look up where the nearest brothel is… (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dbrothel https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:amenity%3Dbrothel)
- sundvor 2y agoLol, you can find these with Google Maps. Tested in Melbourne, Australia in an incognito Google Maps web session. Brothels are legal here.
- Freak_NL 2y agoI didn't even consider the legality (they're legal in the Netherlands), but I was thinking more along the lines of Google's 'Family Policy' mentioned in the Tweet (Xeet?).
- RicoElectrico 2y agoGoogle Maps is PEGI 3 though.
- sam_lowry_ 2y agoYou need Overpass Turbo for that or OsmAnd~ although I always forget how to search there. This is hilarious but brothels search and bbq area search are the two Overpass Turbo shortcuts in my browser.
- Freak_NL 2y agoNow I'm just curious if the two ever overlap. A BBQ brothel does kind of sound like a business opportunity.
- redsparrow 2y agoThat was my thought. Somewhere on the planet there's something that has a sexual explicit name and the take down is based on that.
- hedora 2y agoThey probably should yank chrome and the app store while they’re at it then.