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Locals Delete Town Off Google Maps to Dodge Tourists
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Locals delete town off Google Maps to dodge tourists
Forget protests and scandals, they’re old-fashioned: just ghost your street on Google Maps. Fed up with endless waves of tourists hogging their streets and stealing their parking spots, one Dutch neighbourhood found a modern solution to an old-school problem: digital sabotage. In Parkbuurt, a quiet seaside district in Zandvoort, Netherlands, locals have figured out how to game the system. Source
In the Dutch seaside resort Zandvoort: locals trick tourists with Google Maps from falsified residents roadblocks on Google Maps to keep tourists away. The city council is upset.
Because their neighborhood is being parked again and again, a few residents of Zandvoort resisted – with the help of a weak point of Google Maps. Not only the tourists were then mad at the residents.
On the way to the beach of Zandvoort some visitors did not get there on the weekend. The reason: According to Google Maps, most access roads were closed.
Zandvoort residents trick Google Maps to block tourists from their streets
Dozens of residents in Zandvoort’s Parkbuurt neighborhood have manipulated Google Maps by marking their streets as closed, redirecting traffic away from the area on busy days, NH reports. The digital action, meant to relieve traffic pressure, prompted the municipality to place warning signs instructing drivers to switch off navigation systems.
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