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Friends and I have discussed many times that we want to be able to downvote certain intersections. Lines of sight, incorrect information about left turns or one ways, idiot pedestrians, accidents, blinding light at sunset, your ex’s house. Tons of reasons.

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The decisions Google Maps (and competitors) make in the vicinity of my house are baffling and dangerous. It's almost like it's intentionally looking for left turns out across busy roads with blind corners and crests. Usually there's a light a block or two over, but no, let's see if we can get ourselves killed to maybe shave a few dubious seconds off our trip.

You can contribute to the OpenStreetMap project to fix the data, which is an an outstanding project. Even without registration you can leave notes and contributors will pick them up: https://www.openstreetmap.org

> your ex’s house

In this case, wouldn't you want to upvote it? More people going on it means they have to suffer from more noise.

Not everyone hates their ex, you know; it just might be emotionally difficult to be reminded of the loss.

What would be the point in downvoting in the first place, then? I assumed it was a joke.

I understood it as a private, personal, downvote. Meaning to tell the system to avoid that route as much as it's possible

Yes. I didn’t mean it as a social filtering thing like HN. I meant it more like most of us interact with Netflix (stop showing me movies like this, it was awful).

That said, if everyone hates an intersection, the mapping people should investigate why. Use it as a priority queue for audits, for instance.

Ah, I see! That makes sense.

Of course, if it's really about avoiding your ex, why would you want the makers to know at all? You'd really want the preference to be on-device only with an option to contribute it to everyone else.

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