Do you guys need any geologists? I’d love to get out of this country.
We have quite a lot of geology.
Every canadian should switch to Organic Maps for national security purposes.
Does that matter if your os is still Android (like most people are)?
Canada really needs to develop its technology to get off of oppressive American tech. We need to work with other countries and develop our own tech to combat this. Absolutely insulting. Just a little “oopsie” after over a decade of not having mislabelled parks? The stink is showing.
We have. Only it’s not well known, because of Google’s monopoly.
Then let’s start naming them and putting them out there. If they’re just maps but we need guis for apps on these, then it’s a great time to start that process and get developers in on it, preferably open sourced if possible.
My guess is there would be lots of developers willing to work on a project like this to help distance us from America.
Open source options exist. We just need more people using OpenStreetMaps and shit.
As much as i try to update OSM with local knowledge, there’s no way to keep OSM reasonably up to date without automation tools.
I’m not sure how OSM can replicate whatever tools google uses to constantly update open/close hours, new/dead businesses, bus stops with schedules, etc.
This is all just crowd sourced no? Like after I visit a place google will ask me a bunch of questions about it (eg. “Did they sell X here?”).
Atleast in India, Gmaps isn’t updated on local info either. OSM is barren in comparison.
There’s maps.cz, somehow has more local data (like hiking trails).
The geodata and related open source technology to edit, review, and host it is already available from openstreetmap community
A government funded utility that utilizes regional GIS and aerial mapping would go a long way. Google’s got the upper hand on directions and traffic reporting though, so that would take more time to make effective. A lot of that is genuinely due to the number of users that exist on the platform though. I think if you tried to implement similar location data analysis for government infrastructure, people would be up in arms at the idea, despite being perfectly happy to provide the same data to Google.
It’s unfortunate that Google is as prevalent a default service as they are, but it’s hard to ignore how good a service they offer, and how long the development period has been to get them there.
Yeah people have to start using OpenMaps more, and OSMAnd app alternative for navigation
I also recommend Magic Earth, I find the navigation to be more reliable than OSMAnd+
Yep! I recently created an account with https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and started mapping my local area. Fuck Google.
I have been using the StreetComplete app that ties to that. It is actually helpful because I noticed some bad information on the local maps that was very easy to correct in the app.
Yeah! StreetComplete is great! They really make it easy to improve the maps. It’s even motivated me to get out and walk more so I can complete the little quests.
Relevant communities:
just scrape the traffic data, it’s what they would do.
Time to update your community on Open Street Map and start using Street Complete so people around you can switch to Open Street Map apps. All it takes is a couple active editors to make a town viable.
Jesus fucking Christ already!
The orange butt plug and fElon need to keep their fucking hands off Canada.
Just checked and sure enough, nearby provincial parks are labelled ‘State Park’
The app is showing provincial and national for me. I’m in NS and have a few around the city and they aren’t mislabeled from what I see.🤷🏻♂️
Either I’m the odd one out or they changed it back.Edit: found one, how have you been reporting this?
If people are wondering why Google is simping to Trump, they have been convicted of being a monopoly and the antitrust action is now in the penalty phase.
The action started under Trump I, was vigorously pursued by Biden’s Lena Kahn and the conviction secured. Now all that’s left is to decide the penalty, which could range from a strongly written letter to a breakup of the company.
I’m getting Microsoft, Clinton & Bush vibes here…
It is really to bad Canada is not going after them yet.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the orange utan asked Google to “make a mistake” on purpose, to float the idea and see what would happen.
Example:
Came here to talk about this as well.
Just label the US as South/Lesser Canada.
The Gulf of Lesser Canada does have a certain ring to it…
They show up as provincial parks for me?
Some of them are listed as state when you bring up their card.
Just says Park for me?
I’m not seeing this at all.
Provincial Parks in BC are all still called ‘xyz provincial park’.
If you explicitly search for ‘state park’ all the provincial ones come up, but there’s nothing in any of their details mentioning ‘state’ in anyway.
/edit: found it.
It’s subtle, but it’s there.
Mount Robson Park from both search and maps:
Looks like they have not changed all of them yet
They don’t let you specify in the ‘edit suggestion’ what it should be; but they let you add images.
/edit submitted one for every park in BC.
Since we are renaming things, why not abandon the America noun to designate the USA?
That would please millions on Americans from many countries that calls themselves Americans since they are referring to the continent.
Congrats. It’s a lot of parks.
