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Pro tip: my phone kept telling me I was in a lake, and it took 2 hours to figure out why
I was trying to map out a walking route near the river in Sacramento and every app kept dropping my pin right in the middle of the water. I messed with location settings, restarted my phone twice, and even re-downloaded the maps app before I checked the actual map data. Turns out someone had tagged a whole stretch of the levee as water on OpenStreetMap, so the map was just wrong, not my phone. Took me about 2 hours to stop blaming my GPS and look at the source. Anyone know the best way to flag bad map data like that so it actually gets fixed?
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the_spencer3d ago
Congrats on spending two hours fighting your phone when the real problem was some random person on the internet deciding a levee was a lake. Honestly kind of funny that the map just quietly went "nope, you swim now" and you believed it. For getting it fixed, opening a note on OpenStreetMap itself is the usual move, or just drop a comment on the map's forum so a local editor sees it. Either way you'll probably look at the map data first next time.
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