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You're probably right. They would only be infringing your trademark if they were doing business in the same category of goods and services. What they're doing sounds much more like some kind of defamation than any kind of trademark infringement. But if they're criminals they probably don't care much about the possibility of a civil action.

Google Maps are rubbish. In my experience they don't even show streets in the right place. When you're ordering something you can always write in the "delivery instructions" something like: "Don't use Google; try openstreetmap.org instead." Then, if they turn up an hour late somewhat grumpy: "I did warn you!"



The occasions when GMaps tries to send you up or down a steep, long flight of stairs on you bike are also annoying.


In my city OpenStreetMap is much better for cycleways.


What app do you use for OSM?


I use OSMand, can't speak for parent commenter though.


Maps.me. Offline, and much nicer experience than OSMand.


> In my experience they don't even show streets in the right place.

The map editing link / tools have been made much more prominent and accessible over the last year or two. I've moved done streets in my town and the experience was fairly painless.


Better to spend that time contributing to OSM, no?


I'm doing both. It's not an exclusive choice.


It's not a data problem, they just literally do not display street names sometimes, even when it's the only road on the screen.


That's not "map editing", it's some half-assed attempt that at best allows you to modify some minor details of map listings. It is absolutely pathetic compared to the features of OSM map editor and the map editor GMaps had. You can't even now enter a place's name in three local languages for f* sake.


> Google Maps are rubbish

It's IMHO because no longer can users properly edit maps. It's now only poor crowdsourced+automagical judgement of minor changes.

There's a post office closed for a year or so now that literally can't be removed, Google thinks it's correct and edits get autorejected. It's incredibly stupid.




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