> Google is able to have such an up to date place database because it relies on a large quantity of crowdsourced submissions

Google denied our address existed[0] for years (which caused several problems with online shops that used Google Maps as the source of truth for address resolution) - took a good few tries to get them to actually add it.

Currently Google Maps is showing an "ALDI charging station" directly across the road when it is, in fact, about a mile down the road.

It's also showing a Chipotle just around the corner when, you'll not be surprised, there is no Chipotle there and, hilariously, the photo it has is of the Chipotle at the O2 Dome a good 10km away.

Absolute clusterfuck of nonsense is Google Maps.

[0] A 1960s London estate which was adequately represented on Google Maps and Streetview, mind.

It's bizarre, isn't it?

I work in a warehouse, and if you type our address into Google Maps, it puts the maker right on our building. But they also label the building as a pub, two buildings down the street.

I've submitted corrections, and had a reply saying they were accepted. You can look on street view and the true location of both pub and warehouse are clearly visible, so there'd be no problem verifying my correction. Their map view includes the outline of the pub, as does their satellite view. The pub's been there 10 years, the warehouse since the 1990s. The Street View car has driven through the pub's car park three times.

And yet, the pub marker stays in the wrong place.