The City of Tallinn’s efforts to get unified cycle networks entered into the Google Maps app has been repeatedly hitting a brick wall.
While Tallinn has cycle lanes marked on the map as a unified network within its submitted plans, in reality these run the gamut in terms of how well they are marked out and how continuous they are.
For instance, it is not unknown for a stretch of good, well-segregated cycle path of a decent width to fizzle out into a sidewalk or road after a few hundred meters, for instance.
Another issue is getting through to Google in any case, Tallinn Mayor Jevgeni Ossinovski (SDE) told “Aktuaalne kaamera,” adding that he hoped he could address this.
“Google is such a peculiar organization that you don’t get an answer from there. We haven’t got cycle paths on the map, nor any answer either. Our belief is that with an appeal at the political level, the response could be different this time,” the mayor said.
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