The problem I have with editing Google Maps is that the tools are so much harder to use than OSM's. I really, really enjoy using JOSM and can really improve thi

The problem I have with editing Google Maps is that the tools are so much harder to use than OSM's. I really, really enjoy using JOSM and can really improve things in a short time. Google's web-based tool is much slower, and the dependency-chain approval process can make what should be a quick edit into a multi-day process. [1] One example is a local park's hiking trails which are closed to cycling traffic. I'm do a lot of local biking and regularly use Google Maps to plot routes, so when I saw that the hiking trails had been somehow marked as cycling routes (which Google was directing people along!) I went to change them. Two hours later and I still wasn't done with simply unflagging two square miles of hiking trails. Had this been in a JOSM-like interface it'd be 15 minutes at most, including committing the change back. I understand that Google doesn't want to make changing things too easy, lest there be all manner of vandalism and personal-motive edits, but it's currently hard enough that those of us serious about making substantive changes have the tools getting in our way.