Sort by TechCrunch (Free subscription) - 08/27/2008 - YouTube
Map your world with Google Map Maker! Whether it's drawing roads and bridges from scratch, highlighting major landmarks, or tagging your friendly neig...
Sort by TechCrunch (Free subscription) - 08/27/2008
When it comes to the availability of good mapping data, not all parts of the world are created equal. That's why Google is taking a wiki approach to filling out the white spaces on its maps, particularly in developing nations. Back in June , it launched Map Maker for a small group of island nations where there isn't great existing cartography data. But now it's added India to the countries that can...
Sort by Google LatLong (Free subscription) - 08/13/2008
The poet John Donne once said, "No man is an island" - and for those of us who've had the opportunity to see our users map their world, we believe in the collective knowledge of communities sharing what they know best about the places where they've lived, visited, or explored. Not too long ago , we announced the launch of Google Map Maker - a tool that allows users to build maps of their neighborhoods,...
Sort by Digital Urban (Free subscription) - 11/01/2008
Google Map Maker is a Google Maps service that allows users to add or edit features, such as roads, businesses, parks, schools and more. It is a classic Web 2.0 methodology to map the regions of the world that are not already covered by the Google Maps and we kind of like it. The timelapse video below illustrates Madurai, India being mapped: Only certain regions of the world are available to edit/map,...
