Google is helping the rich try to take over the world?
Dam i always thought the richest company on the planet was looking out for the little guy!
Lmao but seriously nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Just submitted some feedback.
Submitted as well
We must share a brain, because I did the same earlier too.
Well, I called them “dipshit collaborators” but you know.
Reported and left a one-star review for mislabeled locations.
Spineless collaborators. Fuck you, google.
I tried to report it in google maps, but it says you can’t report on that area.
Probably just because there are no streets or landmarks there. I went through the “submit feedback” option, it took a screenshot of the Gulf, and let me submit with no issues
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are rolling in their graves.
Time for a repeat comment: Organic Maps does everything Google Maps does (except traffic conditions), and is FOSS. Please encourage places to contribute business information to Open Street Maps.
Organic Maps does everything Google Maps does (except traffic conditions)
I really doubt that’s true, but I’ll give it a shot… it doesn’t seem like they position it as a good tool for driving directions, which is my main use case. Lack of traffic data is sort of a big part of that. How well they keep up to date based on things like road construction and changes is important, too.
No traffic data is a deal breaker for me.
Have you tried Magic Earth? It’s based on Open Street Maps but it has real time traffic data.
No, but I’ll take a look
Thanks
I’ve been trying to fill in the data around me. It’s not there yet. But I’m trying.
And I’m not in some backwater area. I’m just outside Chicago and when I go into the city I’m still filling things out.
Google has no credibility except that of complicity.
Open Street Map hasen’t
Public act of fealty. Google has officially kissed the ring of the mad king. Realize what that means for the way they handle business moving forward.
They’ll still end up like all of Trump’s other business partners in the end. Betrayed, unpaid, and regretful.
Ok internet, lets sing a song called “non-google alternative map programs”, ill start.
OpenStreetMap!
(I dont know the rest of the words… Halp)
Here Wego (formerly Nokia maps)
Magic Earth!
Love them, they almost seem too good to be true
Well, I just opened Apple Maps and typed in “gulf of america” and got 0 results. I typed in “gulf of mexico” and got a big bold label across the correct location saying “Gulf of Mexico”.
Under Google Maps, for either of them, I get Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America).
That’s because they use open street map (and other providers).
May be time for Android users to switch to iPhone, then?
Sure I’ll go support this little caritative company by buying a new ethical phone instead of using e/os or whatever alternatives there is! 😁
Or just use any other maps app. You can avoid Google entirely even on Android. Just takes bit of effort.
or just install a non invasive os that doesnt steal your data…
Screenshot from Apple Maps just now:
Organic Maps!
It’s important to remember that the only reason he can get away with everything is because lots of other powerful people are going along with it.
and by doing so, those ‘lots of other powerful people’ are getting less powerful by the hour. we may even be down to one or two scRotus rulings from those particular people not being needed anymore.
There’s a simple explanation for that: they’re more committed to fascism than to their own self-interests.
Rich and powerful doesn’t mean wise.
Everyone always thinks they’ll be on the life raft. That they’re on the “inside” group.
History, statistics and economics would show the vast majority will not be, but they are willing to give up everything everyone else has, as well as risk all they own, to guzzle down the hopium that they’ll hit the jackpot and be even filthier richer than they already are.
The inevitable shoe drop and leopard face-eating is inevitable, as is the fact another asshole will immediately start claiming if we just give him all the power and wealth that will be the fix.
It’s time to switch to the private [email protected]
Cowards
Well, that’s what it is for 4% of the world’s population. For the rest of the world it’s business as usual as the US is smelling its own farts.
I call it baby bumpers … Google maps has placed baby bumpers on its service for Americans so that they don’t hurt themselves with anger.
From Australia they’re using parenthesis to display it as an uncommon name.
Same in Canada.
They’re doing that in the US as well, but only if you zoom in, weird
Finally uninstalled Google Maps. Installed Organic Maps, instead. (f-droid).
You just couldn’t resist sucking up to Trump, could you Google? Remember when your company motto was, “don’t be evil?” That was 20 years ago.
