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The blank spots

In six towns this site sends people to, OpenStreetMap records 145 things between them — a school and a church in every single one — and nowhere at all to eat. Every app built on that map, which is most of the ones not made by Google, shows those towns as places you drive through without stopping.

Read every line here as a statement about the map, and never about the town. None of these places is short of somewhere to eat. The map is short of them, which is a different thing with a different fix — and the fix is not ours to make, because copying a directory into OpenStreetMap breaks its licence and gets reverted. It takes somebody who lives there, standing outside the door, for about twenty minutes.

The six towns

Each one links to itself — if this is your town, that link is the one to share.

Boyd's Cove

The map knows Boyd's Cove has a school, a museum, a church, a community centre — 7 things in all. It knows nowhere to eat.

This site measures a drive to it: see the route. The first person to add one place closes it — here is how, from a phone.

Burgeo

The map knows Burgeo has public buildings, a church, sports pitches, a community centre — 44 things in all. It knows nowhere to eat.

This site measures a drive to it: see the route. The first person to add one place closes it — here is how, from a phone.

Campbellton

The map knows Campbellton has a church, a school, parks, a fuel station — 6 things in all. It knows nowhere to eat.

The first person to add one place closes it — here is how, from a phone.

Cow Head

The map knows Cow Head has lookouts, information boards, picnic sites, outdoor seating — 64 things in all. It knows nowhere to eat.

This site measures a drive to it: see the route. The first person to add one place closes it — here is how, from a phone.

King's Point

The map knows King's Point has a church, picnic sites, parks, a fire station — 18 things in all. It knows nowhere to eat.

This site measures a drive to it: see the route. The first person to add one place closes it — here is how, from a phone.

Leading Tickles

The map knows Leading Tickles has a church, a school, a campground, a post box — 6 things in all. It knows nowhere to eat.

This site measures a drive to it: see the route. The first person to add one place closes it — here is how, from a phone.

What is deliberately not on this list

The same sweep found nine more places with nothing to eat on the map. Eight of them are left off because they are not communities at all — ferry slips, a nature park, an ecological reserve, an interpretation centre, a headland and a highway junction. Places this site routes to, where nobody lives and nothing is missing. A seabird cliff with no restaurant is the map being right, and putting it on a list of things to fix would be asking somebody to map a place that is not there.

And one that is a town, held back by a different gap

Pilley's Island is a community with people in it, and it is not in the list above for a reason worth stating plainly: OpenStreetMap holds no place record for it at all. The nearest named settlement the map knows is Miles Cove, 3.98 km away. The map is missing something more basic than a restaurant here — it is missing the town's name — and that is a smaller fix than any other ask on this page.

How this was measured, so you can check it

Every place this site sends people to was queried for somewhere to eat within 5 km, and — in the same request — for everything else with a tag on it. That second count is the whole method: a town that comes back with a school, a church and a fuel station but nothing to eat has a hole in the map, because the question demonstrably reached it. A place that comes back empty was never really measured and is never published as an absence.

Then each one was checked against the map's own idea of a settlement — a named town, village or hamlet within 3 km — and against our own name for it, because a ferry slip beside a community is still a ferry slip.

This is a dated baseline, not a scoreboard: when somebody adds a place, the next sweep shows one fewer town here. That is the only measure of this page that means anything.