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Posted by justincormack 12/9/2025

How Google Maps allocates survival across London's restaurants(laurenleek.substack.com)
400 points | 211 commentspage 4
philipwhiuk 12/11/2025|
Dataset seems imperfect, a good local fish and chip shop shown on Google Maps isn't listed.

Interesting points tho.

badgersnake 12/11/2025||
Google Maps is just advertising now. Not sure why anyone chooses to use it over better alternatives.
mistercheph 12/10/2025||
What's google maps? I use OSM
zem 12/10/2025||
super interesting project. I would love to generate a similar list for my own neighbourhood
digitalPhonix 12/10/2025|
Yeah!

> "I scraped every single restaurant in Greater London"

How hard is that now? I assumed that Google is very protective of that data

_ink_ 12/11/2025||
I would be interested how this was done as well. She mentioned the was using a free tier from Google, so maybe the data is not protected.
boyka 12/11/2025||
Someone chose to ignore Google Maps terms and publicly blog about it
zacharybk 12/11/2025||
This is incredible, thank you for putting in the time to create it.
kh_hk 12/11/2025||
Post could benefit from a terser writing that has not gone through AI.

It took me extra effort to distil useful information from all the noise of what otherwise would be a great post.

pjs_ 12/11/2025||
Google Maps is the mind killer. We all worry about social media controlling the way we think, feel, vote etc. but Google Maps literally manipulates where people physically go in real life, what they do on holiday, where they hang out, what they eat etc. I got so sick of feeling like a four point five star Google Maps automaton I had to mostly stop with it. In addition to OSM, personal recommendations etc. the best substitute for me for a 4.5 star review is my nose, eyes and ears
bbno4 12/11/2025|
pretty cool, i'll check some of these out thanks!
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