Tech - Google launches Google Map Maker

HYDERABAD: Google today launched "Google Map Maker", a global product developed by the Indian engineering team which allows users to add or edit features, such as roads, businesses, parks, schools, apartment buildings and localities. With Google Map Maker tools, users can add detailed information about these locations and this user-created geographical content is updated and made visible immediately to all other users, a Google press release said here today. Understanding that people know their neighbourhoods bets, Google Map Maker empowers this user-expertise to improve the breadth and depth of available mapping data. The product introduces peer moderation allowing users to review the data their peers have entered to ensure map quality and accuracy. "Google Map Maker solves an inherent need especially for countries such as ours where maps data in sparse. This product embodies our passion to empower people everywhere, to share knowledge of the places they know best by creating maps", Dr Lalitesh Katragadda, Software Engineer and Creator of Google Map Maker said. "This is a great achievement for our engineering team " said Dr Prasad Ram, Head of Google R&D. This launch is the reinforcement of our commitment to bring more useful information to people around the world and especially in hyper-growth countries like India where maps are changing on a daily basis given the rapid pace of infrastructure development", he added.