One shows only a few shops, often the ones that pay the most, the other shows the true number of different places in the area.
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I don't like that google selectively chooses to show certain businesses over others.
But at the same time the lower screenshot is just pure information overload, it has way too much going on for a casual map to use while walking around and that sort of thing.
i mean thats what search is for, right?
Sort of, OSM doesn't really have much to search for. For example if I search "gluten free lunch" google will search the reviews and menus, and is pretty decent at showing me options. OSM would not be able to return anything most likely.
@MangoPenguin @Sidyctism2 Google ecosystem aside, this could be solved partially by just having more POIs with tags (cuisine=Thai;gluten_free) or such.
Google still isn't absolutely amazing at it, I regularly try to find dog friendly stuff via Google and fail, even though it searches reviews and the Q&A.
But metadata helps, always!
Overture POI could help with this too, not sure if gluten free but stuff like Halala and Vegetarian are restaurant categories for Overture POIs
The problem with tags is they can go out of date so quickly and require someone to update them, whereas most restaurants publish a menu on their website or ordering site, and google can pull info from that.