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by username923409 636 days ago
If it was (more) moderated it would just be sterile, boring, and less true to reality. The entire point is to label areas with the most obviously applicable stereotype, and for that it's doing a great job.
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Forests marked as offices... this is far from accurate.
Guess what? It’s still boring
Neighborhoods and golf course labeled as offices...
I’m not sure why there’s such a high expectation of accuracy on something called “hood maps” that doesn’t use extensive moderation? Just move on if you don’t find it interesting or amusing.
I guess I didn't see a big "this is a joke" label on the site so evaluated it as I would any service purporting to provide maps - where accuracy is a P0.
Not really. My city seems to be mostly inaccurate trolling.
My area now’s too rural to have much on this site, but the city I’m most familiar with had pretty damn accurate labels.
There used to be something similar to this (was it called wikimapia?) back around 2008-2010 or so (maybe it's still around?) where people could up/down vote the tags and if the downvotes prevailed the tag would go away.