How Google Maps is shaping where we eat.
Josh Toussaint-Strauss discovers that great restaurants are disappearing on Google Maps, despite having lots of reviews and high ratings, so he sets out to get to the bottom of it and finds out that what Google Maps shows us isn't necessarily what we want to see
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2026/mar/19/how-google-maps-is-shaping-where-we-eat-video?utm_source=globalmuseum #globalmuseum #googlemaps #restaurants
@globalmuseum Use OpenStreetMaps and their myriad of apps instead. Contribute, update opening hours, contacts etc. and tell restaurants they can put their website in there for free. Also: donate if you can, infrastructure doesn't grow on trees. 😇
It's like Wikipedia, but for maps.
I find information on OpenStreetMaps more complete than Google Maps; I don't understand why people is still using other kind of maps for anything that OSM can solve.
The idea of somebody creating her own restaurant map reeks of not knowing OSM even exists.
@jgg @cweickhmann @globalmuseum If you open Lauren's map site you can see that it's based off of OSM. It's right there in the bottom right corner.