Pakistan, Leader in posting Google Map Data

Pakistanio ko koi aur kaam nahi? :stuck_out_tongue:

Silicon Valley (California), May 23 (ANI): Pakistan netizens are posting more localized information and data to the Google’s ‘map maker’ than the web users of any of the 160 countries which are using the leading internet search engine’s experiment.

Lalit Katragadda, the founder of Map Maker software informed that a particular Pakistani based in London has posted most frequent edits to the Google’s Map Maker, a user-operated software.
Katragadda, who is based in Bangalore, told The Nation via teleconference that the software updates information instantly after a user sitting anywhere in theworld within 160 countries posts an edit to the live Map Maker.

When questions were put forth regarding the authenticity of the data provided by any of the net users, Katragadda said, it can always be verified by the software.

“We can always verify from authentic as well as independent sources within an hour’s time,” he added.
Any such experiment, related to a country’s geographical territory can always be a sensitive issue, and could have some implications, but the Google’s Map Maker had not come across any political issues till now.

“We have not faced any political issues so far,” Katragadda said. (ANI)
Pak Netizens Posting More Data To Google Map Maker Than Any Other Country

Re: Pakistan, Leader in posting Google Map Data

For once we're out on top. I remember seeing a similar project long ago called wikimapia.com. What wikimapia does is pull satellite images from google earth and then users go and mark all the places they recognize using click and drag boxes. This was ofcourse a reference only site and hardly as interactive and exhaustive as google map maker. :-)

Re: Pakistan, Leader in posting Google Map Data

Its cool. I'll wait for street view in Pakistan :D

Re: Pakistan, Leader in posting Google Map Data

^ Great, lets all grab our Yashica's and go shootin' :-p

Re: Pakistan, Leader in posting Google Map Data

i think this all get started from a thread in Travel forum by Teggy... and the word goes out..

i personally add/edit routes in Punjab/Northern Areas... ;)