@Mastodon Geographically by server location or by area served? Cause in some cases that's pretty wildly different.

@Coihue Sorta. @TechConnectify isn't quite consistent about it yet.

@TechConnectify Nice!

@notjustbikes The biggest reason, knowing how the juice is made in digital cartography, is that Google Maps is only minimum viable map proof of concept for motorists and transit users, and a complete afterthought for pedestrians and cyclists. Compound this with their data and business model being very oriented to be a Yellow Pages nearly exclusively, it's basically false advertising to call that product a map and foolish to use it for nav.

Especially when @openstreetmap exists.

@ShadowJonathan I 100% would go door to door updating OpenStreetMap fulltime if I could afford to, socioeconomically.

This obsession spawned out of maps not updating fast enough in Portland 20 years ago to reliably run a courier service and kinda getting screwed by that, ultimately leading me to learn about and start contributing to OpenStreetMap just to have accurate navigation in a city that was changing the street grid daily.