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Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps

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Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps

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Post by tommorris »

Piskvorrr wrote: post #176
eli wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

shrug they are making the best map better. I can see why you disagree, but it's pretty understandable.

Best is in the eye of beholder. As for amount of detail, accuracy, speed of updates and speed of response to such vandalism, OSM seems much better to me (at least judging by its European coverage, don't know how good it's in your location). No Street View? That's acceptable for me.

Well, OSM is very variable depending on country.

In Britain and France, OSM is very good. In NL and DE, it is amazing. In the US, it is okay.

It sort of depends on the user community that edits it. OSM is used heavily by the cycling community who want to put all the off-road cycle paths and so on onto the map. And it's used by hikers and wheelchair users and a bunch of other subcommunities who want to make it good for them.

In the US, there isn't such a big community of fanatical cyclists and so on, so less need for alternatives to commercial maps like Google and Apple.

As for Street View - give it a few years. Mapillary is building a Creative Commons-licensed, user generated Street View. http://mapillary.com - example: http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/SX2UBibwT4S1h4u_jSHmxg

Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps

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Post by userbinator »

tomkwok wrote: post #127

The culprit is here: http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&ptab=1&uid=200619129451... That guy finished his 'masterpiece' after multiple edits less than 24 hours ago.

I have a feeling some vector image conversion software was involved in the process, especially after seeing that Skype logo. He didn't draw these manually.

Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps

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Post by piyush_soni »

Aissen wrote: post #132
tomkwok wrote: post #127

The culprit is here: http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=66&ptab=1&uid=200619129451... That guy finished his 'masterpiece' after multiple edits less than 24 hours ago.

Another one here, same editor: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7194117,73.1391458,19z

This is still here (others are gone for me). Wonder how he's able to do all these edits and still get approved?

Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps

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Post by piyush_soni »

mahouse wrote: post #78
blueatlas wrote: post #23

That cannot possibly be meant to be the Apple logo. It's just an Android peeing on a real apple that someone took a bite out of.

Next time you bite an apple, think you could be sued.

Well, Apple has already been doing that, and that's not even a bitten Apple. :)

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/07/apfelkind-cafe-...

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Post by V-2 »

sirsuki wrote: post #157
nfoz wrote: post #146

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Do you cross-check everything else? I'm sure it depends in what capacity the information is "used", right?

Something I never understood. When referencing a "real" encyclopedia you have to include the revision number thus if information changes in later revisions your citation remains intact. Wikipedia is exactly the same. When you cite Wikipedia you should include the revision number so that if it changes (as it frequently does) you haven't lost the text referenced. Could higher change frequency provide higher mis-informa…

Any real encyclopedias where hoaxes would not get corrected for years?

See http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/04/... - it's been featured on the main page just a few days ago.

The same article points out that the editors-to-articles ratio has been rapidly falling from 2007 to 2014 (it bounced back a little this year, but it's too early to say if it isn't just a fluke).

Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps

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Post by Aissen »

piyush_soni wrote: post #193
Aissen wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another one here, same editor: https://www.google.com/maps/@33.7194117,73.1391458,19z

This is still here (others are gone for me). Wonder how he's able to do all these edits and still get approved?

Gone now.

Re: Android Is Peeing on an Apple in Pakistan - Google Maps

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Post by voxic11 »

minikites wrote: post #125
madez wrote: post #19

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Also, never use Wikipedia for anything. Since everybody can change it, it's useless.

Wikipedia is actually pretty bad, try following up on any of the references. If they're web references, the chances of it being a 404 page are almost 100% in my experience. Not to mention the editors being almost all white men and the opaque process that limits most "non-male" topics: http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/wikipedia-college-classes-... Wikipedia is basically infotainment, the Buzzfeed of encyclopedias. Se…

Learn to use way back machine...
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