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Comment Google Map Maker is The Planet of the Apes (Score 1) 166

It does no good to edit maps in Map Maker, particularly if your edit includes data that has changed in the past two years. Google relies on DBpedia.org and NAVTEQ for mapping data, both of which can be two or more years old. If the edit you contribute doesn't match these "official" sources, your edit will be denied. Even if you manage to get an edit approved, some "Ape" will come along after you and revert it. I spent many hours improving Google Maps through Map Maker, until my local government assigned new E-911 addresses for my area and the Apes insisted they were wrong. These Apes were even so self-righteous in their refusal to accept empirical evidence that the changes I had submitted were actually correct. The Apes also do incredibly stupid things like displaying irrelevant, numerical magisterial district designations in place of city names. I completely gave up on Google Map Maker when a simple correction I submitted hadn't been approved after months of waiting. This was because the data from their "official" sources was outdated. Many more months later, it's still outdated! So, guess what? OpenStreetMap now pounces the shit out of Google Maps in my area!

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