Google Mug Maker

Over the concluding calendar week Google has been running a sweat encouraging people to locomote for gratis inwards social club to assist Google improve its map data. The timing of this sweat has coincided amongst Google's divulge of its Google Map Maker tool inwards Taiwan, Russian Federation together with Malaysia.

Google Map Maker relies on people donating their fourth dimension together with unloose energy for gratis to assist improve Google Maps. Using the tool you lot tin add together roads, railways, edifice outlines together with other map features to Google Maps together with (once moderated) they may look on Google Maps.

Why should you lot locomote for free? 

If you lot regularly purpose Google Maps therefore you lot volition presumably produce goodness at to a greater extent than or less signal from edits made past times Google Map Maker contributors. By becoming a contributor yourself you lot volition also last helping improve Google Maps for other users.

However the master copy beneficiaries of your gratis locomote volition of bird last Google. Google's massively profitable Adsense programme depends to an extent on Google's local cognition together with mapping data. So past times working for gratis for Google you lot tin assist Google increase its profits margin.


Another declaration regularly pose frontward past times Google inwards back upward of Map Maker is that Google Maps API developers volition produce goodness from whatever improvements that they brand to Google Maps. That does look to last a practiced argument. At to the lowest degree it for sure was a practiced declaration earlier Google started charging developers for using the Google Maps API.

Since the introduction of charges nosotros forthwith convey a province of affairs where you lot tin contribute map information to Google for gratis together with therefore Google may accuse you lot to to purpose that rattling same map data. That is why many map developers convey started calling the system Google Mug Maker.

What You Should Do Instead

If you lot are interested inwards mapping simply determine that you lot don't desire to last a business office of the Google Mug Maker system therefore you lot produce convey alternatives.

OpenStreetMap is an openly licensed map of the world, created past times volunteers. Contribute your mapping fourth dimension to OpenStreetMap together with the information you lot contribute is available to you lot every bit business office of its opened upward license.

If that sounds similar a ameliorate bargain to you lot therefore cheque out the Getting Involved, Mapping Projects together with Mapping Parties pages on the OpenStreetMap wiki.