How Google Maps is shaping where we eat

[globalmuseum@mastodon.online]

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

[mason@partychickens.net]

@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.

[thejacenallen@mastodon.social]

@globalmuseum organic maps for me 💪

[waldschnecke@chaos.social]

@globalmuseum #enshittification

[jonasgraphie@mastodon.social]

@thejacenallen @globalmuseum

If you find some restaurant missing you are welcome to add it.

If you are using Android, I can highly recommend using Streetcomplete, where you can add restaurants through the Places overlay.

If you enable all the restaurant-specific quests, you can add
* opening hours
* Whether they have vegetarian/vegan/halal/kosher food
* whether they have outdoor seating (and what kind)
* how one can pay there
* whether they have AC
* wheelchair accessibility
* toilets

[jonasgraphie@mastodon.social]

@thejacenallen @globalmuseum

And i'd say adding the data to OSM is way better then just working for free for Google as some people do ;)

And if you want to add pictures, you can do that through mapcomplete (they upload it to their panoramax). As far as I this is not used by OrganicMaps/CoMaps, but maybe this will be added at some point. Anyhow such pictures are very useful for other people.

[cweickhmann@qoto.org]

@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. 😇

[maexchen1@nrw.social]

@globalmuseum

Überraschung!

[luc0x61@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@globalmuseum Everything that Google touches transforms into gold what's in some billionare pockets. I can't think on any real good for everyone else.

[c_merriweather@social.linux.pizza]

@globalmuseum Organic maps, for me. Off line, less clunky.

[janvlug@mastodon.social]

@globalmuseum If you like vegan or vegetarian food, better go to VeggieKarte:

https://www.veggiekarte.de/

[schepbernard@mastodon.social]

@globalmuseum I've recently moved to #MagicEarth for navigation, ditched Google Maps and Waze and use Open Street Maps for all the task you are refering to.https://www.magicearth.com

[globalmuseum@mastodon.online]

@janvlug No I am not... I just enjoy all cuisines

[pizzademon@mastodon.online]

@globalmuseum if Leon is off to the East then there is a clear field of view to the fine restaurant. Too dangerous.
He won't hit the McDonald's: too many kids.

[htpcnz@mastodon.social]

@globalmuseum wait till Captain Gemini eventually takes over, whatever the nonsense Copilot is doing now will be like child's play in comparison. Yet everyone is very relaxed about it, guess as long as its their corporation team - "Apple", "Google" etc is the ones doing the evil, then it is all good.

[arty@techhub.social]

@globalmuseum check @organicmaps

[f4grx@chaos.social]

@globalmuseum OSM is much better than gmaps at this point. And it's a digital common so everyone can contribute and benefit from it.

[dogiedog64@app.wafrn.net]

It would benefit the world immensely if the Google monopoly on so many things was shattered with the iron boot of the government. Unfortunately, they've effectively bought out the government.

[superblox@mastodon.social]

@globalmuseum I can't see the content because of The Guardian's stupid "pay or okay" cookie wall 😕

[bafdyce@chaos.social]

@globalmuseum Nice video! However, how they fail to even mention OpenStreetMap is beyond me..