Mastodawn

Wuzzy Sep 26, 2023

#Google is trying again to convince you, YES YOU, to contribute for free to Google Maps.
Please don't.
It is 100% #proprietary, Google has full control over the data you added and people can only access Google Maps over proprietary channels where Google dictates the rules. This gives them too much power.

Contribute to #OpenStreetMap instead, it's a project by the community, for the community.

https://www.openstreetmap.org

#OSM #GoogleMaps #PSA #scam #capitalism #OpenData

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OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.

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Rusty Corgi ➡️ Furcationland

@Wuzzy It helps that Google makes it impossible to contribute anything meaningful to Google Maps. There's a river near me whose name was officially changed years ago because it was named after an indigenous slur, yet it still shows up with the slur on Google Maps. Meanwhile OpenStreetMap had it changed almost immediately.