Google Maps now lets you correct their online markers, Something I've wanted to be able to do ever since they introduced the feature earlier this year. I had created several marker on my personal maps that and when i tried mark a specific location some of the markers were just a little off.
Now, I've gone and corrected those incorrect markers, which helps me and it helps Google. Keep up the good work.
Here is what some of the other outlets are saying about the new feature in Maps,
From CNET News.com - Google Maps gets user-generated markers:
This morning Google Maps has a handy new feature for users who want to give the free mapping service a little more precision. Users who are signed into Google Maps with their Google account can now edit where a marker appears on any location, be it a business or residential listing. The feature stemmed from some of the options found in Google's My Maps which lets users create their own maps using specialized markers and road directions.
You can now move a map marker a little closer to many businesses and residential listings in Google Maps.
(Credit: CNET Networks)To curb potential abuse, users aren't able to edit the location of a business that has already verified its location via Google's Local Business Center. There's also an official review system that has to double check your edit if it's more than 200 meters away from the original location. If you come across a marker that's been moved, you can view its original location and you think is inaccurate, you can click a link to send it back to its original spot.
While you have to be signed in to make changes, other users can only see the first two letters of your name. Likewise, if any changes have been made you can track them in a history which shows the original marker location, along with its new one on a mini map.
Eventually the company hopes this will let users with potentially mismarked residential listings rectify any confusion that results as a part of difficult to find entries--typically the kind of thing you find in tightly packed urban areas, or buildings with multiple entrances. Google has also put together an explanatory video, which I've embedded after the break.
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4 comments:
Satellite view of southern France has a street name wrong in the hamlet where we have a house. Is there a way to have that corrected?
The Pittsburgh, PA, Greyhound Bus Stations has moved to 55 11th Street (the corner of 11th and Grant Street). Its across the street from the Mtrack on one side and the Westin Hotel and Fish Market on the other side.
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Google Maps has my driveway listed as a road. How do I get this corrected?
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