markalex (Feb 19 2026 at 21:07): markalex (Feb 19 2026 at 21:07):I decided to poke Maxima about errors on their site (stores in Aizpute and Lielvārde in random places, duplication of the store on Deglava)
Just am curious if they will react at all.
Will report here how or if they will react
HellMap (Feb 19 2026 at 22:44):It seems those errors are on their shop map (not just some API/scraping), so they might reply/fix
HellMap (Feb 19 2026 at 22:45):I also realize Osmalyzer doesn't detect duplicates in source data; these could probably be auto-detected and reported separately... may be. Not sure if this is more helpful because it's already on map, just a little confusing first time you see.
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Also holy heck the difference between OSM and GMaps
markalex (Feb 19 2026 at 22:49):HellMap said:
It seems those errors are on their shop map (not just some API/scraping), so they might reply/fix
Yes, this is completely on their side. That's why decided to poke them.
They might, or they might completely ignore me. I'm curious to find out which one will happen =)
markalex (Feb 19 2026 at 22:50):I don't think detecting duplicates makes sense in broader sense. For other analysers this might be more problems, than help.
markalex (Feb 19 2026 at 22:52):And yeah, I don't know for whom gmaps are made, but those are definitely not humans.
markalex (Feb 20 2026 at 08:46):I got response this morning:
"Paldies par Jūsu sniegto informāciju."
That's all.
Let's see if they will act on it :)
markalex (Feb 24 2026 at 14:56):They updated their site :tada:
Only error on Maxima's report is a shop bleeding through border from Estonia!
HellMap (Feb 24 2026 at 15:06):OSM data can be filtered to exact LV border for these cases, although not sure how important this is here.
HellMap (Feb 24 2026 at 15:07):What always amazes me is that there is a person who was paid to put those points on their website. You would think having their shops listed and advertised everywhere would be a top priority
markalex (Feb 24 2026 at 18:34):HellMap said:
OSM data can be filtered to exact LV border for these cases, although not sure how important this is here.
I think it is not important)
markalex (Feb 24 2026 at 18:43):HellMap said:
What always amazes me is that there is a person who was paid to put those points on their website. You would think having their shops listed and advertised everywhere would be a top priority
I don't think for Maxima (and other store chains in Latvia) it is really the case. At least in cities like Aizpute: everybody there probably already know that Maxima exists and where it is.
But in general - yeah, I find it surprising that companies don't pay much attention to maps :shrug:
And the ones that pay at least some, from my experience, often just never have heard about OSM.
Rihards Olups (Feb 27 2026 at 21:48):I did report to Rimi once a shop on their map being marked on the other side of a large street. Which they did fix.
But yeah, many people do not care about what they do, be it maintaining store locations on a map or something else. As long as that is socially acceptable, they can just slack off and work less :)
markalex (Feb 28 2026 at 08:03):Businesses operate under rule of good enough, and since most of them use google maps as basis for map, I'd honestly say that errors like other side of the street of even wrong building on the same street - is good enough.
Because I can't reasonably expect from their workers to decipher that joke of a map to find correct building.
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