Old post is here: https://lemmy.world/post/14437575
Both OSM and Organic Maps are SEVERELY lacking in businesses. So many places aren’t in the directory.
You search for fast food and only a couple pop up. Search for s fancy steakhouse by name, nothing. It shows about half of the weed dispensaries in my area…
Is there a way to update the “phonebook”?
Has shitgle been spending money trying to make all other maps unusable? It sure fuckin seems like it.
It’s not as if google’s map is without problems. Even when it comes to finding shopping opportunities, depending on what you’re looking for (computer shops, locksmiths) it can have a lot of locations on the map that don’t exist in reality. And then for something like fast food you can assume it’s more prominently showing whichever chain has paid the most.
Maybe it’s worth it if you need to be sure of finding the nearest McDonalds, but it isn’t the map I’d go for first for most things.