Mike Elgan@mastodon.social to tails: A Place for Mastodon Posts@lemmon.website · 1 year agoFollowing Google Maps directions in rural Tasmania and encountered this sign.files.mastodon.socialexternal-linkmessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1449arrow-down10
arrow-up1449arrow-down1external-linkFollowing Google Maps directions in rural Tasmania and encountered this sign.files.mastodon.socialMike Elgan@mastodon.social to tails: A Place for Mastodon Posts@lemmon.website · 1 year agomessage-square90fedilink
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up42·1 year agoSubmit your edits to OpenStreetMap instead. Fuck doing unpaid labor for Google; they can fucking pay somebody for it.
minus-squarelol_idk@lemmy.mlcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up24·1 year agoI have thousands of edits on OSM for over a decade, but people getting lost is less cool than spending 3 minutes trying to help people
minus-squarexantoxis@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 year agoNormally I’d agree with you but a lot of people use Google and driving for a few hours in the wrong direction in Tasmania can kill you. Fixing something like this might well be a humanitarian action.
minus-squarelntl@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 year agothis sign is the “humanitarian action.” fuck Google
Submit your edits to OpenStreetMap instead. Fuck doing unpaid labor for Google; they can fucking pay somebody for it.
I have thousands of edits on OSM for over a decade, but people getting lost is less cool than spending 3 minutes trying to help people
Normally I’d agree with you but a lot of people use Google and driving for a few hours in the wrong direction in Tasmania can kill you. Fixing something like this might well be a humanitarian action.
this sign is the “humanitarian action.” fuck Google
This is the way.