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Yeah not bad, I'm sure you could use federated login to allow the users' personal google acct to hit the maps api and pull reviews. But yelp/google/amzn/etc all manipulate ratings and reviews behind the scenes without any transparency which is a deeper problem and why I am always critical of reviews in general. But like I said, if you and I created an OSS review plugin/service for use in OSS maps, it wouldn't be long before it was corrupted in some regard... somehow. Cynical I know but the review data is just so damn JUICY to everyone.