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Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by ant6n »

gordo4 wrote: post #94
duiker101 wrote: post #83

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Honestly for me it boils down to Google maps being just a superior app. It's not even the amount of data in itself(which is a lot already tbh) but just the app being better. I don't think I have seen a decent OSM app yet.

OsmAnd is far superior to Google Maps in my opinion, especially for backcountry offline navigation. It's one of the most important apps when traveling abroad or when cell service is spotty. Google Maps is basically useless in rural South America, for example... and OSM is actually more up to date than Google Maps when it comes to river crossings, etc... and POI data is available for offline use. Google Maps can't eve…

Is that the ugly one where you have to download huge regions to offline just to look at where you at right now?

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by sciurus »

gordo4 wrote: post #94
duiker101 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly for me it boils down to Google maps being just a superior app. It's not even the amount of data in itself(which is a lot already tbh) but just the app being better. I don't think I have seen a decent OSM app yet.

OsmAnd is far superior to Google Maps in my opinion, especially for backcountry offline navigation. It's one of the most important apps when traveling abroad or when cell service is spotty. Google Maps is basically useless in rural South America, for example... and OSM is actually more up to date than Google Maps when it comes to river crossings, etc... and POI data is available for offline use. Google Maps can't eve…

Backcountry offline navigation in rural South America is far from what most people are using a mapping app for, though.

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by Sir_Cmpwn »

panic wrote: post #87
neolefty wrote: post #84

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It benefits other Google Maps users. Is it actively bad to moderate Google Maps?

Exactly—OpenStreetMap would get more contributions if they had more users. People want to help others, but it's not clear how contributing to OSM does this when so few people use their website.

This is a chicken and egg problem. If you want to support the ideas OSM represents your only course of action is to do so. Complaining that people aren't using it is a defeatist attitude.

And in any case, a lot more people benefit from OSM than you know. Consider that it's not just a website with a map on it, but a downloadable map you can do whatever you want with. There's no other free & public source on geography that even comes close to OSM's detail. And OSM is genuinely better for end-users than Google Maps in many respects.

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by panic »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #104
panic wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly—OpenStreetMap would get more contributions if they had more users. People want to help others, but it's not clear how contributing to OSM does this when so few people use their website.

This is a chicken and egg problem. If you want to support the ideas OSM represents your only course of action is to do so. Complaining that people aren't using it is a defeatist attitude. And in any case, a lot more people benefit from OSM than you know. Consider that it's not just a website with a map on it, but a downloadable map you can do whatever you want with. There's no other free & public source on geography…

I'm not complaining, just trying to explain why people don't want to contribute as much. You get the feeling you're doing work for an organization rather than improving a product for everyone. Some people are into that, but I think more people would contribute if OSM had a more usable product.

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by gtdawg »

duiker101 wrote: post #83
black-tea wrote: post #82

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Why do you work for Google for no pay? OpenStreetMap always needs work. Help the community.

Honestly for me it boils down to Google maps being just a superior app. It's not even the amount of data in itself(which is a lot already tbh) but just the app being better. I don't think I have seen a decent OSM app yet.

The Google maps app is quite slow and bloated now on my Galaxy S6 and Nexus 5X. I think OSM has a great opportunity to overtake them on the "app being better" metric. Too many features have been crammed into Maps.

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by johnsimer »

mehrdadn wrote: post #92
superflyguy wrote: post #75

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Stack overflow is pretty popular. Although their recent attempt to "be nice to new users" (which wasn't necessary before, and coincides with the quality of answers rapidly approaching that of Quota) suggests that this won't last forever.

> coincides with the quality of answers rapidly approaching that of Quota Do you perceive Quora to have higher or lower quality answers? I'm having trouble parsing what you meant to say.

Pretty sure s/he means lower

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by philtar »

bpye wrote: post #95
black-tea wrote: post #82

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Why do you work for Google for no pay? OpenStreetMap always needs work. Help the community.

I always try to submit my changes to both. I would like OSM to be great but I find myself using Google Maps as well, it's good for me for both to be up to date.

Google maps copies a ton of data from open street map. The other day my oddly specific edit on OSM was on Google maps within 72 hours.

Re: Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

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Post by agentdrtran »

black-tea wrote: post #82
dawnerd wrote: post #6

I do a lot of Google Maps moderation and there’s a ton of bad changes being attempted every day. Honestly I’m amazed Google doesn’t bother to vet anyone really. Becoming a local guide is easy and not that difficult for a spam group to create enough fake accounts to get things pushed through. Just last night I caught the local Target that was reclassified as a “prison”. What Google needs to do is lock information for…

Why do you work for Google for no pay? OpenStreetMap always needs work. Help the community.

It's way easier to contribute to Google Maps, and Maps blows OSM out of the water in features, usability, and data quality.
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