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rbt said:
If it's anything like OpenStreetMap, half the additions were walking paths across private land (requiring trespassing). I gave up deleting trails and adding fence markings years ago; evidently satellite images are the perfect source.

I can see a few legal issues. A random user taking material from one map and injecting it into Google Maps puts Google on the hook for copyright fraud fines when they publish those changes. A stop&desist order from another map vendor with evidence Google had their data (inaccuracies are often purposefully added for proving this kind of thing) would have done it.
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Some online cartographers decided to create Null Island where the Prime Meridian meets the Equator.
 
Leo_Chan said:
Is something finally going to happen? Tweet

Edit: It’s happening! Tweet
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Wow, nice work! TYSSE hasn't been shown for months which is a huuuge deal, imo and clearly in others' as well. But in just a few keystrokes you are close to getting it solved. Interesting dynamic, both the Twittering getting it solved but also that TTC seemingly wasn't aware it didn't show up on Google's transit overlay.

K, now I'm noticing 512 St Clair isn't showing up either. Maybe another nudge is in order.
 
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I certainly opened a mapping Pandora's Box didn't I... (the butterfly in Chaos Theory where in the past, a missing walking route caused Vaughan subway to sometimes wrongfully completely disappear from transit search results)

Google, being headquartered in suburbia, long neglected transit directions more than car driving directions for a long time. Especially transit directions in certain places such as Canada.
Apple, initially even worse so -- they didn't have transit directions at first for a long time.

But now, transit directions are critical in mapping apps, given the smartphone generation reliant on these, with many young adults having now grown up never having used paper maps (not even printouts).

TTC needs to stay awake at the [bus] driver's wheel on this.
 
Re: SmartCentres Place Bus Terminal, from Link:

October 2018 update: Due to unforeseen circumstances, construction work is currently on hold. Discussions are proceeding to complete the project within requirements. As a result, we anticipate construction to now be completed in 2019.
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rbt said:
That was my thought.

Of course, nearly everyone under 23* has been using generated created maps for their trips over their entire lifetime. Generated includes a printout of directions, not necessarily a real-time GPS backed display.

* I've made the assumption very few people under 10 self-navigated for trips without an escort who knew where they were going. That is, they've not relied on a fold-out map.
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Speak for yourself. Under-10 year old me had the fold-out map out every car trip. :p
 
Satellite imagery on Google Maps was updated recently with May 2018 imagery, here's VMC:
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Got to admit, significant development potential here. Tabula rasa.

I will always be skeptical on the wide right-of-ways, wind-swept environment , and general auto-dependency of an area like this, even if this becomes a high-rise forest. But, better this than urban sprawl.
 
Yeah, it will probably be a vertical suburb which is even worse for congestion because each tower has umpteen cars.
 
I don't know the parking standards off-hand, but they are not typical suburban levels. My guess is it will be something like North York Centre, but whereas that density is very much along the Yonge Street spine, this will be more spread out. Highway 7 and the main streets around there are definitely huge right-of-ways, but it's the same point. NYCC focuses on Yonge but VMC will have more of an internal focus, away from 7, Jane etc. There will be linear parks running E/W on both sides of Highway 7 and a finer grain of streets. So, it will still be kind of a "vertical suburb" but, at least as designed, it shouldn't be too much of a forest and should be fairly walkable and not auto-dependent, at least within the north and south blocks.

There will always be something to criticize - North York hasn't hit employment targets, for example - but overall VMC is off to a pretty good start given that the subway just opened a year ago. There's still massive parking lots in that aerial shot, but they won't be there long.
 
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