Funny to see that the pins are the author's biggest problem with Google Maps.
Google seems to have started using some kind of automation to generate maps several years ago and quality just went to utter shit. In my city, there are buildings that overlap a river. They're there since at least 2020 and no one tried to fix that. When I traveled to Dubai this spring, it was even worse — only the streets on Google Maps somewhat matched reality, but buildings were some arbitrary shapes strewn around.
This kind of product quality is something that I'd be too shy to show to an office janitor, yet Google — a multi-billion-dollar company — somehow deemed it appropriate to ship this abomination to production.
Google seems to have started using some kind of automation to generate maps several years ago and quality just went to utter shit. In my city, there are buildings that overlap a river. They're there since at least 2020 and no one tried to fix that. When I traveled to Dubai this spring, it was even worse — only the streets on Google Maps somewhat matched reality, but buildings were some arbitrary shapes strewn around.
This kind of product quality is something that I'd be too shy to show to an office janitor, yet Google — a multi-billion-dollar company — somehow deemed it appropriate to ship this abomination to production.