@pthane

I didn't get the parentheses a few days ago. I do now. Fupping Google breaking their products for the rest of the world to please the orange gobshite now 😡

@thegardendude

@MercG @thegardendude

By the way there’s talk in New Zealand of renaming the ‘Tasman Sea’ ‘The Ditch’.

@settima @thegardendude

There is more to it than that, though. It is well known in the OSM world that the #GNIS is massively erroneous, and it is only the GNIS that #DonaldJTrump has ordered changed. It is a single name change in what is *already* a vastly unreliable source.

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/USGS_GNIS

#MakeGeographyAccurateAgain #OpenStreetMap

@andalmori @thegardendude

#GoogleMaps is not reliable and never has been.

This is an opportunity I hope for people to learn how the sausage is made.

Google Maps gets its information from government databases such as the U.S.A.'s Geographic Names Information System (#GNIS). #DonaldJTrump just ordered the GNIS database records to be changed.

All of those WWW sites like RoadsideThoughts and *many* others (showing things like "hotels near $NAMEYOUTYPED") do exactly the same.

So Google Maps and RoadsideThoughts et al. are just going to follow the GNIS changes. No complaining is going to affect this, as it's all automated. (There are no human beings involved at all in the RoadsideThoughts et al. automated WWW sites.)

The problem is that this is far from the only problem with the source data. OpenStreetMap people know all too well the *huge* problems with the GNIS data. They have a big article about it on their wiki. The data are vastly erroneous.

#MakeGeographyAccurateAgain

@_Wilbert

#osm preferably!

For bike routing
- https://bikerouter.de with lots oft layers

Mobile apps
- #organicMaps (very simple)
- #osmandplus

Web:
- https://openstreetmap.org
- https://opentopomap.org
- https://www.openrailwaymap.org
- https://www.lightningmaps.org

@thegardendude

@_Wilbert
there is also een offline option: maps.me

https://maps.me
@thegardendude