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by superimposition 2011 days ago
Ditto. Additionally, Google Maps makes me try to cross streets that technically shouldn't be crossed by pedestrians.
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Google Maps has functionality for reporting problems. I've done the same when it suggested an unsafe bicycle street-crossing and they updated the routing.
It may take a while for such information to make it to the map. https://www.theguardian.com/money/2020/dec/20/google-maps-po...:

“His problem was that the postcode for his east London flat was incorrect on Google Maps, so any driver using the service for navigation ended up not at his address, but in parkland at Three Mills Green, Bromley-by-Bow, half a mile away as the crow flies, but a mile and a half to drive.

What was an easily fixable error resulted in three years of frustration for Borghs, who first noticed the problem when an Uber driver took a wrong turn when taking him home.”

Google sure loves free employees...
As long as I don't have to pay obscene amounts for navigation, especially in the car, I don't mind.
In my Mazda, I only had to buy a $30 SD card from Ebay to make navigation functional
If I were you, I would stop buying random SD cards from the internet and connect to my devices, especially things like my car.
lol, fair point... but they can probably hack it remotely anyways...

Are you also of the opinion that you can't buy used phones?

You can also contribute this to OpenStreetMap :)