>That is to say, it tracks where people drive, and when people drive in the same place often, it flags it as a common route and therefore must be a road!
do you know this to be true, or are you just guessing?
do you know this to be true, or are you just guessing?
I live in a less rural area but I've still noticed a handful of things in my area marked as more complete roads than they should be. Nobody in person would mistake them for even the lowest grade of official road in use around here.
https://support.google.com/surveys/answer/6315313?hl=en
They ask you questions about train rides and bus rides as well. Google doesn’t buy data any more, they collect it.
Why wouldn’t they be tracking where people drive and building maps about new roads from that?
again, is this something you know to be true, or are you just guessing?
The highlighted tracks are private, mud-ridden trails on private property. If I'm sitting in that house, and ask Google to direct to me to the address directly north of my location, it will direct me to take that trail to the north. Which, BTW, will lead me to a locked gate and another trail on the other side of the fence. The correct answer is to send me south to the county road, east to the next county road, north to the next county road, and then west via county road due north of where I am. Those trails are not roads that google would otherwise know about.