Google is involving its users to make their life easier by participating in Google Maps and so far they have been successful. The new service Google Map Maker is also one of them. It allows users to customise maps by adding different options like adding points, drawing lines (roads, railway, etc.) and shapes (lake, local parks etc.).
Google Map Maker is reaching out some remote parts of the world, the ones whose data is not as good as it should be and also hoping locals will fill out the missing part if any. This is the reason one cannot use the tools everywhere. You can use the application to stuff the data of only few countries which includes:
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Cyprus
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Iceland
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Pakistan
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Vietnam
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Caribbean nations
Adding points let you add different places like restaurant, cafe, etc., drawing lines let you draw road, railway, river etc., where as drawing shapes let you draw lake, local park etc. Once the map is edited, the data is conveyed to Google so that it can be put to the actual Google Maps product.
Places which cannot be edited, appears gray when zoomed. A big difference can be seen after editing places. Lets take the example of Myanmar, before the catastrophic cyclone, Myanmar’s data was not available but with the help of community and engineers, the map is now presenting a different story.
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