I still use gmail and drive for work but otherwise I’m never logged into anything google at home. Today when I tried to expand on a restaurant’s hours it wouldn’t let me see them without logging in, although it still worked in incognito. This restaurant screenshot is just a random other example I tried, but for the one I was actually checking google had the correct hours while the official website hasn’t been updated in awhile and had the old ones (website said they’re still open for dinner but they’ve only been doing lunch for a year or so now)
thats cool, just know youre part of the problem, not the solution.
your reasoning for not leaving is exactly what they want to hear.
If the problem is a lack of suitable alternatives, that’s not the user’s fault. Google even snapped up Waze.
They need to use something. You suggesting they should just go make their own Google Maps?
and Waze is still Israeli spyware.
And owned by google to boot, no?
They don’t need to, since OpenStreetMap already exists.
They just need to do their part by contributing to it.
Why is it a map’s responsibility to list restaurant hours?
The OP even said the restaurant has their own website where they list their hours. I’m fine with leaving it at that, personally.
You’re not wrong, the map isn’t really the right place for that. Yet the map should provide a way to get from the physical location to more information about the place (physical building and logical business entity)
What’s the open equivalent of Yelp?
So you’re part of the problem or… have no access to information. Do you realize how much more data Google has in some places? I contribute to osm every now and then but still use Google maps for navigation, it’s not even comparable.