OpenStreetMap didn't have the same error (which was still on Facebook, last I checked). Facebook Places has a buggy duplicate detection system that would frequently merge different places together, including one I specifically cared about. It would suck in any new instances into its merged blackhole. IIRC, a huge portion of the activity in that "netherworld" Facebook group I found was trying to mass-report merge errors to the automated system, which frequently didn't work.
However, OpenStreetMap would have been a very good suggestion for some of the other "netherworld" Facebook group members. Many of them seemed care about making Facebook Places accurate in general, so they'd look for and fix errors far afield from the stuff they actually interacted with.
Yeah I was just commenting in general towards the attitude of wanting to help people. It's wonderful when people have good intentions like that. But people should direct those good intentions on improving open data sets instead of being slave labour for large corporations.
> Add the info to OpenStreetMaps instead.
OpenStreetMap didn't have the same error (which was still on Facebook, last I checked). Facebook Places has a buggy duplicate detection system that would frequently merge different places together, including one I specifically cared about. It would suck in any new instances into its merged blackhole. IIRC, a huge portion of the activity in that "netherworld" Facebook group I found was trying to mass-report merge errors to the automated system, which frequently didn't work.
However, OpenStreetMap would have been a very good suggestion for some of the other "netherworld" Facebook group members. Many of them seemed care about making Facebook Places accurate in general, so they'd look for and fix errors far afield from the stuff they actually interacted with.
Yeah I was just commenting in general towards the attitude of wanting to help people. It's wonderful when people have good intentions like that. But people should direct those good intentions on improving open data sets instead of being slave labour for large corporations.