How Google Maps is shaping where we eat
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@globalmuseum I can't see the content because of The Guardian's stupid "pay or okay" cookie wall 😕
@superblox I just ignore it. Read the story and delete cookies from my PC
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@globalmuseum Use OpenStreetMaps and their myriad of apps instead. Contribute, update opening hours, contacts etc. and tell restaurants they can put their website in there for free. Also: donate if you can, infrastructure doesn't grow on trees. 😇
It's like Wikipedia, but for maps.
I find information on OpenStreetMaps more complete than Google Maps; I don't understand why people is still using other kind of maps for anything that OSM can solve.
The idea of somebody creating her own restaurant map reeks of not knowing OSM even exists.
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@globalmuseum My simple solution here is to not use Google Maps ever, for anything. If I need directions to a place, I'll use MapQuest.
@mason @globalmuseum But do you know of the place using MapQuest (OpenStreetMap, whateverelse)?
One of my biggest obstacles with degoogling my maps experience hasn't even been route planning (although that too, many places only have public transportation presence on corporate maps), because I can certainly get from A to B with any map that actually has the locations; but that there's often not nearly as wide a spread of useful POIs as on Google :/
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It's like Wikipedia, but for maps.
I find information on OpenStreetMaps more complete than Google Maps; I don't understand why people is still using other kind of maps for anything that OSM can solve.
The idea of somebody creating her own restaurant map reeks of not knowing OSM even exists.
@jgg @cweickhmann @globalmuseum If you open Lauren's map site you can see that it's based off of OSM. It's right there in the bottom right corner.
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@mason @globalmuseum But do you know of the place using MapQuest (OpenStreetMap, whateverelse)?
One of my biggest obstacles with degoogling my maps experience hasn't even been route planning (although that too, many places only have public transportation presence on corporate maps), because I can certainly get from A to B with any map that actually has the locations; but that there's often not nearly as wide a spread of useful POIs as on Google :/
@phl @globalmuseum You can ask for recommendations on the Fediverse. There are review sites like Yelp. There are options.
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How Google Maps is shaping where we eat.
Josh Toussaint-Strauss discovers that great restaurants are disappearing on Google Maps, despite having lots of reviews and high ratings, so he sets out to get to the bottom of it and finds out that what Google Maps shows us isn't necessarily what we want to see
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/mar/19/how-google-maps-is-shaping-where-we-eat-video?utm_source=globalmuseum #globalmuseum #googlemaps #restaurants@globalmuseum
Interesting criticism of Google, but deciding that one woman's website, who used AI to weight Google reviews in one city is the way to go rather than use, idk, OpenStreetMap, or yelp (though yelp may have it's own problems) to look for food is frankly bizarre. -
@phl @globalmuseum You can ask for recommendations on the Fediverse. There are review sites like Yelp. There are options.
@mason @globalmuseum That's a very different MO from how I do my exploration with restaurants, which is more like "I'll be in this area, let's see what kind of interesting stuff is there by some definition of nearby*" (and maybe ask some friends who happen to know the city or whatever). Pictures and reviews help, and having to switch back and forth between map and yelp is painful
*"nearby" can be indeed as little as a few streets away or on the other side of the Yamanote Line for all I know :D
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@mason @globalmuseum That's a very different MO from how I do my exploration with restaurants, which is more like "I'll be in this area, let's see what kind of interesting stuff is there by some definition of nearby*" (and maybe ask some friends who happen to know the city or whatever). Pictures and reviews help, and having to switch back and forth between map and yelp is painful
*"nearby" can be indeed as little as a few streets away or on the other side of the Yamanote Line for all I know :D
@phl @globalmuseum Well. You might be stuck with Google, then.
Sometimes inconvenience is the price of breaking free from surveillance capitalism.
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@poindexter nice!
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@sabrinaweb71 @panormus @Fabio
Può essere, feci scuola guida con una 128 rossa, che rosso però non ricordo (42 anni fa più o meno in questo periodo, ma con tanta nebbia in più).
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@Alberto Esisteva sia con che senza portellone. In questo dettaglio era più 127 che 128, anche se tutto il resto era pura 128.
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@MauroV1968 @luca
Causa cambiamento climatico ne spariranno molte... 😝
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Found at an estate sale yesterday.
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Andata a votare, con babbo. Noi i nostri due NO nei denti di Giorgina e la cricca di impuniti li abbiamo depositati nell'urna.
E ora attendiamo. Sperando i fasci ricevano una bastonata sonora.
