Global MuseumMar 21
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
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@globalmuseum organic maps for me 💪
Mar 21 at 6:01pmWeb
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@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

Show threadjMar 21

@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.