Crimsonfox
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I don't know if anyone noticed but Google's "Map Maker" was recently made available in this country. For those who don't know, Map Maker allows users to submit, suggest and improve maps with a pretty decent array of tools. It's all community driven and other users and Google administrators have a hand in reviewing changes.
These can be anything from roads, trails, paths, buildings, shops, rivers etc, the list goes on.
I've been tweaking bits and bobs on there since it came out, correcting positions of shops, fixing funky road placement and drawing in building outlines. Some of which is already live on maps, see the paths and trails through Vicky Park for example, I put them in.
Now I know not everyone would do this or even understands why some people would but it's something to do with the town and improving upon things so that can't be bad. Is anyone else doing this? Or even has anyone found anything wrong before and wanted to fix it but didn't know they could?
Edit: I probably should have pointed out you can get to it at http://maps.google.com/mapmaker !
These can be anything from roads, trails, paths, buildings, shops, rivers etc, the list goes on.
I've been tweaking bits and bobs on there since it came out, correcting positions of shops, fixing funky road placement and drawing in building outlines. Some of which is already live on maps, see the paths and trails through Vicky Park for example, I put them in.
Now I know not everyone would do this or even understands why some people would but it's something to do with the town and improving upon things so that can't be bad. Is anyone else doing this? Or even has anyone found anything wrong before and wanted to fix it but didn't know they could?
Edit: I probably should have pointed out you can get to it at http://maps.google.com/mapmaker !