The name of the Takotie Playground in Ylöjärvi was changed to Google Maps.
The name of the playground in Ylöjärvi was changed to racist expression. Screenshot of Google Maps
The name of the Takotie Playground in Ylöjärvi was changed to Google Maps in silence. There is now a racist expression in the name of the Takotie Playground: the playground of the Negro.
Iltalehti learned from the reader who had studied his old residential area of the application. The reader’s interest arose when there was a strange expression in the name of the playground along the Takotie.
– Suddenly, I spoke in the eye that now is a special sounding playground there. I can’t say why it’s like that, says the reader.
The reader was wondering how the name ended with the service. He tried to find out how the name could be reported, but the service gave me an alternative to suggest only a new name.
Ylöjärvi was amazed
Iltalehti reached Ylöjärvi’s Green Manager Jutta’s kauttoon who heard about it for the first time during the call.
Awesome Kautoon says that the change of name has not come to the attention of the city. He adds that the city has nothing to do with the change of name.
You can’t say who could be behind the act. Kaututo says he begins to find out how to change the name to the original name, the Takotie playground.
Similar name changes have been made before. For example Microbit He reported a year ago of a high school in Valkeakoski, the name of which was repeatedly changed since 2023.
The expert comment
University lecturer Matti Nelimarkka The Center for Social Data at the University of Helsinki says that in order to understand, everyone can make suggestions for Google Maps for place names. Proposals take place in different ways if the proposer has his or her own company or proposes a general place name.
Google goes through proposals by its own methods.
“That quality control doesn’t seem to be at a terribly high level,” Nelimarkka says.
Nelimarkka hopes that companies take more responsibility for their moderation. There are racist place names in Finland even at the official level, but vandalism should be distinguished, he says.
– Google has tried to keep itself separate from this accuracy of the information. They do not feel that they themselves are in the end of which the map service provides information.
– Then it’s a bit like this. After all, it would be hoped that those big platform companies would have enough knowledge and enough people to deal with these things.
According to Nelimarkka, for example, Wikipedia has suffered from the same like vandalism and Wikipedia has developed different methods to solve problems.