Disruptive editing by OLA

Communities India
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OLA has disrupted a major stretch of road in Vizag, Andhra Pradesh. These edits are not in sync with ground reality and even basic logic. I’ve commented on their changeset one week ago with no response till date. I’m requesting OLA’s mapping team to respond publicly in this forum and justify how and why these edits were made. This behaviour has downplayed community mapping efforts, undoing public transport and other routing relations.

This is how most of the BRTS roads function in Vizag. A bus lane in the middle and one ways on both sides of it. The bus lane is not strictly enforced and sometimes public traffic goes through, but it is still legally a bus lane, and doesn’t change the fact that there are 3 roads.

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  1. OLA mappers seem to see four roads here. Two for bus lanes which are one ways and bidirectional roads on both sides! link to this stretch

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  1. Here there is no bus lane at all, totally deleted. And they added a random service road.
    link to stretch

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360 imagery of that stretch for reference : https://www.mapillary.com/app/user/Catto?lat=17.734634091111&lng=83.272423307222&z=19.175214076160458&pKey=4128484587394408&focus=photo&x=0.41638882185243814&y=0.5281615348155024&zoom=0

I’ve sent an email to support@olakrutrim.com and geocommunity@olacabs.com requesting a response.

Thanks

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Hi ph4ni,
Thanks for bringing this to our attention and for providing detailed references, screenshots, and local context.
We’ve reviewed the stretches you mentioned and have now made the necessary corrections based on your feedback and local knowledge. We appreciate the time and effort you put into maintaining the road network and public transport relations in Vizag.
As a mapping team, we often rely on ping data and secondary sources while editing road networks in regions where we may not have strong local familiarity. In this case, those sources appear to have caused incorrect interpretation of the BRTS road structure, and your clarification helped us correct it.
We understand the importance of preserving community mapping work and routing relations, and we’ll be more careful while handling similar edits in the future.
Thanks again for reporting this constructively and helping improve the map quality.

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