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by csomar 908 days ago
It is not the user's responsibility. Google Maps is now a marketing platform (try typing a Hotel name and see how that goes). At this point, we should have an Open Source Open Map that let's people contribute and it's actually free.
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Like, say, OpenStreetMap?

https://www.openstreetmap.org/

The moment such a map will have high enough usage assholes will put in incorrect data maliciously. One of the major reasons for google map errors is malicious editing.
OpenStreetMap has high enough usage that vandals enter incorrect data [0]. But such vandalism is generally corrected very quickly.

[0]: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism