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I'm just getting an angry fruit salad of squares in most places with some edgy comments thrown in.

Basically, OpenStreetMap meets 4chan.

If it was (more) moderated it would just be sterile, boring, and less true to reality. The entire point is to label areas with the most obviously applicable stereotype, and for that it's doing a great job.

Not really. My city seems to be mostly inaccurate trolling.

My area now’s too rural to have much on this site, but the city I’m most familiar with had pretty damn accurate labels.

Forests marked as offices... this is far from accurate.

Neighborhoods and golf course labeled as offices...

I’m not sure why there’s such a high expectation of accuracy on something called “hood maps” that doesn’t use extensive moderation? Just move on if you don’t find it interesting or amusing.

I guess I didn't see a big "this is a joke" label on the site so evaluated it as I would any service purporting to provide maps - where accuracy is a P0.

Guess what? It’s still boring

There used to be something similar to this (was it called wikimapia?) back around 2008-2010 or so (maybe it's still around?) where people could up/down vote the tags and if the downvotes prevailed the tag would go away.

Yep, I don't like it. Amplifies racist and ignorant voices.

AFAIK there is no mechanism to artificially favor any particular view. There is only the thumbs up/down mechanism meaning what you see is what the userbase finds useful or amusing. It ain't that serious.

Something similar happened to Google Map in Hong Kong recently. A dozen schools had their names changed by some pranksters. It's surprisingly easy.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/society/article/3279201/...

Yup, seems like no moderation is taking place...

its run by 1 guy that has like 10 other sites. I don't think he makes any money off this one, just leaves it up for fun.

I've seen this same map used for years in digital nomad guides.

When was this made, 2012? It's just so many variations of "hipster".

It’s been around since at least 2016, probably a few years earlier.

Eh, I have found it useful when checking out cities to move to

What do you look for when using this to decide where to move?

Looking at cities near me, I see things like "suburban kids trying to be urban", "we cute here", and "stroller mommies who brunch", alongside some racist stuff. I'm not sure how to use that information when making a life-changing decision like moving to a new city.

Bakfiets moms, International School kids, wannabe TV stars, hipsters, tourists are all useful signals. I'm an international parent who ride a bakfiets and likes art but does not want to be a tv star :-)

Those are all funny and somewhat useful. What’s the issue?

>What’s the issue?

Of those three examples I gave? No issue at all, why do you think there is one?

>and somewhat useful.

I don't see how they are useful when deciding on where to move. Can you explain how you find them somewhat useful in the context of moving cities? How are you factoring in "we cute here" into your relocation decision?

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