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matsemann • today at 4:14 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

Yeah, I spend my free time making it accessible to bike in my area. Some of that is providing google with free street view data and other stuff. The amount of broken stuff and lack of support, when I'm literally giving them free work, is insane. I hate to do it, but the good outweighs the bad imo (I also provide it to open alternatives like OSM, Mapillary etc).

Like, their pipeline has been broken for months. No way to contact them. There is a support page for the api, but they close all issues as "the api is working". Well, sure, you accept the street view so the api is technically working, but haven't processed any for months.. It's probably a different team, but no way they would bother talking to each other..


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smnplk • today at 4:56 PM

Just don't upload to Google. Their maps navigation is terrible anyway. Fuck them. But do continue to provide your valuable data to alt maps.

nickserv • today at 5:08 PM

Just don't upload to Google. They'll take the data from OSM anyway, after some time.

hapless • today at 4:26 PM

Specifically, no one will earn a promotion by talking to another team or improving customer service