At least with open street map, you can login to openstreetmap.org/edit and mark the bad road as private/gated or even delete it entirely. I did it on a bad road segment in my neighborhood and ride-sharing drivers no longer made wrong turns there (Grab apparently uses OSM instead of Google Maps data).
You can actually do this with Google maps too. It can take time for them to actually make changes though
We had this same problem and did just this. 3 years later still no changes. Until my dad happened to be complaining about it at a party and was introduced to a friend of a friend that worked at Google with the maps team. Was finally fixed a week later. So yea a path exists but 3 years is a long time to wait for a simple fix.
I swear they use the Maps Contributor ratings to determine how quickly they make changes.
I’ve not had any issues getting changes made in a timely manner when I suggest them because I’ve left a bunch of reviews and photos for places I’ve visited.
If you never leave reviews or photos, they probably don’t trust your suggestions. That’s just my guess though.
All my legitimate submissions sit forever unacceped, but they were very quick to accept my submission of a landmark location on my old trailer as a “Palace”. Only recently noticed they removed it after years of saying Pleasant Valley Palace was a landmark in the middle of a trailer park, lol.
How? Every single adress is wrong on google for the whole muncipiality since they standarized the road numbering 3 years ago.
Crowdsourcing is nice but I’m not happy about the “don’t mark temporary hindrances” thing in OSM, some of them last for months and I can’t warn others. Sometimes I even forget the hindrance myself and feel real unsmart dumb.
That seems like a tricky one to moderate. I’m sure they are worried about things being set and forgotten and never repealed.
I understand why, but I also have examples of compromises;
- Set a marker, it expires after a certain timeperiod. Users “validate” that the hindrance is still there, resetting the timer.
- Set a marker, “Hindrance here at 2023-11-03”
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- Later (Marked hindrance disappear some time after “Expected end” if no users validate that it’s still there, with new “Expected end”.
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Just some thoughts.
