<story><title>Lyft’s plan to take control of its maps and its future</title><url>https://www.lyft.com/rev/posts/lyfts-secret-plan-to-take-control-of-its-maps-and-its-future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bri3d</author><text>Does anyone know if Lyft plan to contribute their map corrections back to OSM? They mention other companies doing so in this blog post, but don&amp;#x27;t make it clear whether or not they, too, intend to.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m curious to see how good Lyft Maps is, too. Uber Maps is, frankly, a disaster in my area, frequently suggesting illegal and&amp;#x2F;or impossible turns. I try to submit map feedback every trip (very hard as a rider, as most forms of available feedback seem to be to punish the driver rather than the platform), and it&amp;#x27;s still never been fixed. Most drivers seem to use Google Maps or Waze instead and if I see a driver using Uber Maps, I need to watch the trip and suggest several corrections. Ironically, I&amp;#x27;m only a few miles from the office where most Uber Maps staff used to work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sushisource</author><text>I also find it consistently obnoxious that there is essentially no way to say &amp;quot;My driver was fine, but your platform did something stupid&amp;quot; when leaving feedback. At least, not without jumping through a million hoops. The arrogance of our industry is tiresome.&lt;p&gt;I took a ride in SF a while ago and it predicted a 3 minute pick up time which turned out to be 25 minutes - no fault of the driver, and the only way I could complain about this was to click through like 4 levels of &amp;quot;other issue&amp;quot; and then jump through hoops sending emails back and forth with support.</text></comment>
<story><title>Lyft’s plan to take control of its maps and its future</title><url>https://www.lyft.com/rev/posts/lyfts-secret-plan-to-take-control-of-its-maps-and-its-future</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bri3d</author><text>Does anyone know if Lyft plan to contribute their map corrections back to OSM? They mention other companies doing so in this blog post, but don&amp;#x27;t make it clear whether or not they, too, intend to.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m curious to see how good Lyft Maps is, too. Uber Maps is, frankly, a disaster in my area, frequently suggesting illegal and&amp;#x2F;or impossible turns. I try to submit map feedback every trip (very hard as a rider, as most forms of available feedback seem to be to punish the driver rather than the platform), and it&amp;#x27;s still never been fixed. Most drivers seem to use Google Maps or Waze instead and if I see a driver using Uber Maps, I need to watch the trip and suggest several corrections. Ironically, I&amp;#x27;m only a few miles from the office where most Uber Maps staff used to work.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>uneekname</author><text>Lyft is one of the biggest contributors to OSM. Here is a list of OSM accounts related to Lyft [0]. In many places where I&amp;#x27;ve edited OSM, Lyft employees have contributed quality data where there wasn&amp;#x27;t any before.&lt;p&gt;How (and, how respectfully) companies should contribute to OSM is an ongoing debate. But corporate influences are often a good thing, and I think nearly anyone would agree that Lyft&amp;#x27;s contributions to OSM have been resoundingly helpful.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;OSM-DCT-Lyft&amp;#x2F;US&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;OSM-Team-Members&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;OSM-DCT-Lyft&amp;#x2F;US&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;OSM-Team-Members&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>