Import your Google Maps reviews to Mangrove
Did you review places via Google Maps in the past? @mangroveReviews@mas.to now offers a way to import your past reviews, which means they will also appear in CoMaps in future maps!
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Does this connect to OSM?
it “connects” in that applications can just take the coordinates of a feature and check if that position has any reviews on mangrove.
Comaps recently added this feature, which is why this is relevant to the community :)
I don’t think OSM has the option to save reviews in their database, looking at the fields given in Organic Maps.
But who knows, maybe they will consider adding it?
I never really left reviews on Google but I’ve been trying to leave reviews as I go on Mangrove / MapComplete since it was integrated with CoMaps 😊
Last time a shopkeeper told me about its new hours, I asked did you update them in OpenStreetMap? Then I opened an app on my phone and did that with him.
That’s really wholesome
In fact, scrape all of them and then delete then destructively
What about reviews that are 12 years old, are they still worth the upload? Will it use the original date?
yes, it’ll use the original date!
Eh deleted all my reviews after google accepted a claim that my 3* review of one shitty ass shop in Germany was defamation, ignored my response and removed it. Hell, I’d argue it was net positive review (otherwise wouldn’t be a 3* IMO), but the abuse of the system in Germany is wild and clearly Google doesn’t give a fuck just like the rest of their products.
Anyway still waiting for opportunity to “transfer” all my photos from google maps. Ever since they changed what counts as storage use in drive, I’ve used maps to store useful or nice photos from hikes/parks/nature that I didn’t necessarily wanna keep stored on the phone.
Edit: ooh this also does mention the export/import of photos. Guess I gotta try it!
Is there interop with OSM? Happy to see CC ownership of community work. OSM currently does the whole review thing, I’d love to see them work together
not with OSM as a project (it is quite strictly a database of real verifiable geographic information), but applications can just insert reviews into the information they show, like comaps does.
The reviews are of points in the OSM map, and they are published as open data with a permissive license so that they can used for anything. So it’s not a project associated with OSM, but they work perfectly together nevertheless. That’s the beauty of open data.
This seems like a really good project. Frontend/UI agnostic, open dataset that can be used for basically all future OSS map type projects. Kudos to the devs and other volunteers.
Yeah, I think @mangrovereviews@mas.to are really going about it the right way, starting by building a solid reviews platform and getting the basics rights instead of jumping right on shiny features to attract users. They’ve been working on it for years, and I think we will all start seeing the benefits pretty soon.
OSM doesn’t do any sort of reviews. This does interop in that all the reviewable places are places from the OSM database.
Reviews are out of scope for OSM
@mangroveReviews@mas.to could you expand on what happens exactly when reviews are imported in for a POI that doesn’t exist in OpenStreetMap? I did see this portion: " Otherwise it is the first review of the place, at Google’s position.", but could you give more details?
Check out mas.to/@mangroveReviews/117574197861130489 for a general explanation of how the matching works!
Can i import my business reviews (not reviews I’ve submitted but reviews business has received).
Nope, as the rights to the reviews lay with the authors (when adding reviews to Mangrove you publish them under a Creative Commons license)
Thanks, I’ll try asking people to add review to mangrove as well
Aw man, now I almost regret deleting most of my 100+ reviews after they changed the name of Lake Ontario.
Holy shit, I didn’t notice that had happened. Fascinatingly stupid.
I wonder, if you’re in the US, is it changed changed for you?
As someone in Europe, the way they display it is
this
> Lake Ontario (Lake America)
I am just curious if they went further, within the country.
They have to use the “correct” name, that is one of the rare exceptions where google is not bad.
They have to use the “correct” name
Could you please clarify, what would happen to them if they don’t.
In the USA, both Google Maps and Apple Maps say Lake America without any reference at all to the real name.
I think both companies vastly underestimate how abhorrent this is to their users and hiw much trust and goodwill they are losing from their customers/users over it.
Holy fucking shit
That actually happened WTFFF??? I thought it was a meme.
All 12 of my reviews are imported. It’s not much, but it’s honest work!
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Would read this person’s comments again.
10/10 Would review the reviewer’s review again!
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Very funny bit, exactly the kind of internet whimsy I come to Lemmy for
that seems like a great idea! though I can’t help since I’ve never left a review on Google
Done. Thank you for offering an alternative decentralized review area.