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At least with open street map, you can login to openstreetmap.org/edit and mark the bad road as private/gated or even delete it entirely. I did it on a bad road segment in my neighborhood and ride-sharing drivers no longer made wrong turns there (Grab apparently uses OSM instead of Google Maps data).
You can actually do this with Google maps too. It can take time for them to actually make changes though
We had this same problem and did just this. 3 years later still no changes. Until my dad happened to be complaining about it at a party and was introduced to a friend of a friend that worked at Google with the maps team. Was finally fixed a week later. So yea a path exists but 3 years is a long time to wait for a simple fix.
A few months ago I reported a missing section of road where I'm from and they corrected it in like a couple of weeks. Maybe it depends on how many people reports the same thing? IDK
You can... IF other people do it too.
I'm always divided about it. At one hand, I want to help people not getting lost, but at the other, I don't want to contribute to google.
How? Every single adress is wrong on google for the whole muncipiality since they standarized the road numbering 3 years ago.
Thanks. Will give it a shot
You can also make submissions to Apple Maps.
Even though these are massive corporations, they kinda do rely on feedback here.
Crowdsourcing is nice but I'm not happy about the "don't mark temporary hindrances" thing in OSM, some of them last for months and I can't warn others. Sometimes I even forget the hindrance myself and feel real ~~unsmart~~ dumb.
I may not longer live in Vermont but man I've been wanting to get Google maps updated on all the roads that no longer exists also now I live in Florida I'm finding none of the bike lanes are recognized
Nice. The only place I know uses Grab is Vietnam and other se asian countries like maybe Indonesia