How Google Maps is shaping where we eat
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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 If you like vegan or vegetarian food, better go to VeggieKarte:
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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 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
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@globalmuseum If you like vegan or vegetarian food, better go to VeggieKarte:
@janvlug No I am not... I just enjoy all cuisines
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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 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. -
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 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.
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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 -
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 OSM is much better than gmaps at this point. And it's a digital common so everyone can contribute and benefit from it.
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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 #restaurantsIt 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.
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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 I can't see the content because of The Guardian's stupid "pay or okay" cookie wall 😕
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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 Nice video! However, how they fail to even mention OpenStreetMap is beyond me..
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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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How do you lose an election, and why is Democracy failing in America?" If it is not progressive, it will be conservative. "
I have been saying this for years because I understand that the voting mentality, wants, and needs of the population have changed. To spell it out: if you're a wishy-washy moderate, you're unelectable — only people who focus on politics instead of people believe otherwise.
The Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, is one of those wishy-washy moderates — or, as I call them, corporate conservative Democrats. This is the man, for example, who wants to add age verification in every OS (operating system), including Linux. That is not the only problem with him, but it is the most recent one I can recall. The point is, he is not a progressive, and he is not going to win reelection.
Many people don't vote anymore. I do, I assume you do, and perhaps many people on the Fediverse do — but many don't. My sister and her husband, for example, don’t. I sometimes question the value of doing so if the end result is the same. Yes, I said the same — and we can argue about the differences, because there are differences — but at the end of the day, we still end up in the same place we don’t want to go. The only difference is whether we get there fast or slow.
MAGA is simply awful — there is no denying that — but they are giving their supporters exactly what they want. Meanwhile, you have a wishy-washy moderate who will work with these people while claiming unity is more important than change or accountability. So ultimately, we go down that same path by different means, and that’s the path we want to avoid.
People argue that we have to block that awful outcome — but block what? We're still going there. These people will compromise with Nazi pedophiles and tell us it is for the good of the country. And so many people no longer feel enthusiastic or motivated to support any of this.
And we know “next time” is a lie that never comes. It’s what they told my grandpa his whole life, and he passed away at 103 years old waiting for that make-believe “next time.” My parents are in their 70s and late 60s, I’m in my 40s, most people's kids are in their 20s, and the next generation to come is being told the same lie. We’ve all caught on by now.
We need someone who truly is one of us and represents the will of the people. The will of the people is both conservative and progressive at this time in history. Conservatives are being told they can have exactly what they want — when they want it, how they want it — and those corporate conservative Democrats, who are not progressive, will give it to them because they claim unity is more important than change and accountability.
If it is not progressive, it will be conservative. I guarantee it.
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