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by wzyoi 1576 days ago
tldr: false alarm, unclear google

I'm back to process info and make edits.

I couldn't stay online due to injured hands from gadgets overuse.

> OP, why do you think a farm business (which gmaps are showing the location of) should be in the same place where farm land is? These simply seem to be the addresses where a "farm business" is registered, as can be confirmed on a company-info-aggregator site [1]. I assume, in a lot of cases (especially for family owned farms), these are actually homes of the owners, to simplify all the mail and other paperwork. Actual farms can be located anywhere, probably outside of town. It might even be multiple farms (multiple pieces of land). To answer your point about why these seem different (e.g. you cannot report them), I think it's because they are automatically scraped by google from the official company-info sites in each country. Seems to be a similar situation in other countries, as far as I can tell. [1] this is the info of the first item on gmaps I get - address matches the location I'm shown https://youcontrol.com.ua/catalog/company_details/21897611/

curl-up was right - these are all addresses of legally registered farms and they are Googlable.

I did not think about googling the names or how farms are registered or why Google has such weird marks.

I thought they are similar because it's the way to find them and not because they are from one trusted source.

Also, all marks I've seen were close to Russian troops. But the only border of Dnipro that's completely safe is west.

Google parses open data. I was not aware of that.

Thanks for the help and sorry for the wasted resources.

P.S. Those marks still look weird nevertheless. Not reportable or edible. The only article they link to is useless. Maybe it's worth fixing.

I'm out of resources (hands) to continue typing. Thank you all <3

1 comments

Very happy to have been able to help, and thanks for broadcasting my post :) Your theory actually sounded very plausible to me, which is why it peaked my interest so much. I hope we're able to "crowdsource" and inspect future similar cases as well. I wish best of luck in these difficult times.
Too bad I can't edit the post anymore because it got unlisted.

I think it's too hard to notice parent comment.

Maybe mods could pin it?

@dang