Introduce yourself

[Adam Lasnik]

Hi mappers,

I just realized that we've been interacting for quite some time now, but most of us haven't had the pleasure of meeting each other in person... so I figured the least we could do is introduce ourselves! :)  Feel free to share as much or little as you'd like... about what you do for fun and for work, what you enjoy mapping, where you live, if you blog about geo-stuff or anything else, and so on.

I'm Adam, an American guy living in California in the city of Mountain View, which is near San Francisco and also is the home of Google headquarters (where I work).  I'm a Program Manager for Map Maker and part of the Community team.  And though I love maps and traveling around the world, I'm relatively new to the mapping arena, having previously focused on Search at Google.

I enjoy swing dancing, playing piano, working out, and doing geeky things (like posting on my blog, twitter, etc.).

But enough about me!  How about you?

[Eyad N]

I'm Eyad, I live in the city of Damascus, Syria. I am an electrical engineer (the jurisdiction of an electron).
I love to travel a lot, and I love maps, I also like Google to the extent not described, and always talking with my friends that Google will dominate the world at the end of 2012 and will then age 14 years Google.

[Umbraro]

Adam wrote: "I'm relatively new to the mapping arena, having previously focused on Search at Google."

You might be surprised that someone from Google Search is now active in MapMaker, but there is a good reason for it. Google's secret search algorithm is based on PigeonRank, a patented technology setup where trained pigeons are used to select the most relevant web pages for search queries. Google discovered--probably by searching with their own search engine--that pigeons have built-in navigation systems, and that they would be the ideal animals to help making maps in countries where there are no maps available yet. Adam doesn't like to talk about it in public, but in fact he took some of the technology of the Search department and is now managing a large flock of pigeons in the basement of the Google Geo office.

That was not how I came involved in MapMaker however :) As a Dutch computer programmer/website builder I was looking for options to promote our guesthouse after I moved to Kazakhstan. Unfortunately I didn't find any useful maps of the area to direct potential guests to and decided to join MapMaker to draw those maps myself. I am now doing the guesthouse thingy in summer time, while programming and mapping in the winter.

Main hobby is traveling, especially to locations only few people have been before. Collecting maps has always been part of that hobby and I collected my first topographic maps more than 30 years ago.

[Muhammad Shahidul Islam]

Dear,
Thank u for interest about me,i agree with u . ok i am little busy .....

I'm Sohel,From Bangladesh in Dhaka.Below is my present Job location ...plz find from Google Map 

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[Cees Heim]

I am a Dutchman living in Germany and married with the most lovely woman from Brazil. This year we want to settle in Brazil. Because of the many visits we made to Brazil we know that the available navigation systems all lacks good map data, especially for the rural area's. The area I map Maranhão and particularly the area around Humberto de Campos and Barreirinhas are not to be found on maps. Also the perfect new asphalt highways are not on the maps with the result that the navigation system sent you over dirt roads. Then I found GMM Thanks Google.

[Arlete Meneguette]

Hello there !

My name is Arlete, I am Brazilian lady living in Presidente Prudente, a city located in the western part of São Paulo State.

I am 51 years old, I have been married for 30 years to Messias.

We have four sons: Thiago (29), Lucas (23), Matheus (21) and Samuel (10).

My husband and myself work at UNESP (São Paulo State University). 

I am a Cartographic Engineer, PhD in Photogrammetry and a full professor of Cartography and GIS.

Google Maps, Google Map Maker and Google Earth are some of the resources I intend to teach my students this year.

This is why I have been devoting most of my time in the last few weeks: I want and I need to learn as much as possible.

Therefore, as I am a newcomer and a beginner in this field many of you have been my teachers and I am so grateful !

Cheers.

[Richard Hintz]

Hi,  I live in Berkeley (near San Francisco), but somehow work in Los Angeles, >300 miles distant, doing IT for CENIC.  CENIC does big, fast networking for Research and Education institutions, mostly for California, but we have a North American networking footprint.  Our customers/associates include University of California (all campuses), USC, CalTech, CSU, and, generally, anyone who has Internet access if they're a K-16 school/institution.  Last time I looked we had lots of high speed peering with the usual suspects like G**gle and others.  Which costs a lot.  Please send us money.

I've had a background task at work of bringing fiber optic networks to the masses, mostly wide area, but lately metro.  Foreground task is data center infrastructure design, including cloud.  (Yes, I know, *yawn*...)

I like to travel in rural areas, mostly in SE Asia, where the maps are generally terrible or a strip map you get from the guesthouse on "how to get to Temple X."  I've had an interest in the classic Ho Chi Minh trail, in eastern Lao and Cambodia, but generally the maps are lo-res.  Hardly anything outside the main cities is mapped, so I just map away and don't care too much about pending moderations.  I just move on to some other area.  Once in a while I come across a local mapper and try to get them enlisted in The Cause.  Except for Phnom Penh I haven't had much luck.  Vietnam, of course, is well represented with mappers, so I don't do much there except add some historic sites.

For a while I've been trying to map major global historic sites and sites in the news, such as border temples from the Angkor era in Lao and Cambodia as well as Afghanistan hotspots like the Pech River Valley.  I starting, when possible, to post geo-located photos of significant waypoints to Panoramio and tracks to Wikiloc.  Content from both of these shows up on Google Earth layers, but the geo-locations are often very inaccurate.

I've been doing some mapping in Umbraro's general region, planning for a trip generally from the UK to Sri Lanka, planning a mostly northerly route.  Morteza says he can get me an Iranian visa, though, so I may look at a more southern route instead. ;)

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Rich

[Andres]

Hi everyone,

I'm Andrés. I was born in Colombia but have lived in the US for the past 15 years. I studied Computer Science and Business Administration and am currently looking to relocate from the South Florida area where I currently live to complete my master's in Software Engineering. I mostly do freelance work developing internet applications for local companies, and used to do IT/network/db administration before that. I've also recently joined a startup to develop an identity management application, which I'm excited about.

I like backpacking/hiking, camping, cycling, kayaking, and most things outdoorsy. I really enjoy traveling, especially to places of great natural beauty. I try to squeeze in at least one trip per year to a national park. I'm hoping to make it out to Glacier and Banff NPs this year, following trips to Yellowstone/Great Tetons, the California Redwood forest and Alaska in past years. I hope I get the opportunity to travel in my own country someday, which has amazing natural beauty, but the violence when was growing up prevented many people from traveling to remote rural areas. I'm also into nature photography (just an amateur), yoga and geeky computer stuff.

I'm not sure how I ended up in Map Maker, but I've been hooked since, (bragging aside) racking almost 15,000 edits and 1,600 km of roads in the ~180 days that I've been active. For some reason, doing repetitive un-rational work like mapping relaxes me from my other brain-consuming activities. I had been mildly into cartography since I was a kid; I played around with GIS in college, but since I discovered Google Earth and Google Maps my perception of the world changed dramatically, and so with smartphones and the internet becoming more and more readily-available & popular in my country, I want users to be able to have more complete/useful information when using these services.

[ViswaPrabha (വിശ്വപ്രഭ)]

Hi Mappers,

I am V i s w a n a t h a n,  known more popularly on the net as \/ i s w a P r a b ha  or   V i s w a m.

I am an electrical engineering graduate of 1986 from a great college at my hometown Thrissur in Kerala, (which we all proudly call as 'God's own land' for it's own worthy reasons!). At present, I work in Kuwait. Until recently I was in the healthcare and scientific laboratory industry travelling vehemently throuout this country.

During the first six years of my career in India, I had the great fortune of continuously traveling almost every nook and corner of that great country. Right from the top to bottom and left to right. At times, I would be spending 25 nights every month in a moving train or bus.
That was a time, when there was no internet, (not even plain old telephones in most villages), no proper maps and not even a way of knowing which LAT/LONG you have ended up at any particular time!

Isn't it a good reason for me now, to jump into the GMM bandwagon when finally everything fell into place?

Since GMM was accessible to the public, I have been an active collaborating member.
I started with my very own village, then my district, state and the country, occasionally camping (concentrating on features) at one region for a few weeks. Particularly, I used to trace rivers and water features, forest lands, air ports, electrical HT lines, educational institutions and health provisions.

Between Google Maps and me, it has been a very successful symbiosis (No, they didn't sent me any checks), However, my ultimate loyalty is not to the corporate entity that is there, but to the common mass of all developing world (like India and Africa). I strongly believe that regardless of the way or extend our work output for the GMM mapping may be used for Google's corporate gain, every little mark-up there in GM will someday, in some way, help every poor family and their righteous government to make life a little easier and comfortable.

Thanks and Happy Map making everyone,
Viswam
Kuwait

[MJ]

just wanna say hi from kuwait, any kuwaitie here?

[Qobad Mahdavi]

Hi mappers

I am Qobad Mahdavi from Iran

I've got my bachelor degree  Electrical Engineering in Communication field in Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic) one of top university in my country in 1995.

I was interest on computer and start working and studying from 1991 up to now.

I think I'm one of oldest customer of Google site form 1st day of using internet so my default home was it from 1999.

I'm IT Manager of  IRIB Mazandaran  where I employed 13 years ago.

My experts is search and find everything in Google and enjoy of it.

I live in Qaemshahr  and work  in Sari but I born in Kolim village.

I enjoy of nature photography, search on net and studying.

Best wishes for all

Qobad

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 8:43 PM, MJ <m.j.a...@gmail.com> wrote:

just wanna say hi from kuwait, any kuwaitie here?

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[Ilyas Hussain Ahmedi]

Hi Everybody :)

This is Ilyas. I m an Engineer working in Embedded Systems. I live in Bangalore, India. Well! As we all are here, we all must share some similarities. So do I do. I love travelling. It might sound funny but I always wish that if I had born in the ages of Big Ships travelling across the world. Having some adventurous life like Gulliver, Sindbad or Captain Jack Sparrow. Well! I have started mapping with my home town. And I ll contribute all my traveled experiences on Google Maps. Hope we all will help each other in making this Big Earth, Small. :)

All the best.

[Ilyas Hussain Ahmedi]

[Ilyas Hussain Ahmedi]

[Momodou Semega-Janneh]

HI

My name is Momodou I live in the Gambia West Africa I am the son of a land surveyor but  i Got into mapping after using Google earth to solve a land dispute now i map West Africa which is useful to my excursion company.

I was one of the mappers that attended Africa mappers Conference in Nairobi in November 2011 am happy to help Map Sudan to do my bit

Regards

[wdagher]

Hi 

My name is Walid

I am from Anfeh, Lebanon

I work in Jounieh, and I like google maps

[Jabran]

Hello everybody.

I am Jabran Rafique. I am from Wazirabad, Pakistan and I study in Stafford, UK. I have been in one of the all time power mappers since 2008 and mapped mostly Pakistan but do moderation wherever possible. I and few other mappers from Pakistan sometimes join in hand together as "Team Pakistan" and take on some particular area or feature for serious mapping. One of the example was the mapping of all major road network (Highway, Motorway) throughout the country which took 2 of us nearly 6 month to bring it near completion. Also I worked on few mapping relief support projects (here, here and here - Omer, Faraz and number of other excellent people involved) which were basically based on the maps we create at Map Maker and it helped the humanity somehow and that was what I started mapping in 2008 so that it will help people one day. I also founded and moderate a group, a blog and a facebook fan page related to Map Maker in different ways.

Thanks for your time.

Regards,
Jabran Rafique

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Pakistan Flood Relief Support | Geography of Pakistan

[Jabran Rafique]

Hello,

Pakistani Mappers! Introduce yourself & be part of Team Pakistan! http://bit.ly/fbZmGK

Thanks.

Regards,

Jabran Rafique

[Lorik Haxhiu]

Hi, I'm Lorik from Prishtina  in Kosovo. 

I really enjoy Google MM and all Google products. I take mapping as a hobby and I see it as a way contributing to my local community by providing more and accurate data. I also work with GIS and I would love to see a possibility to import KML files into MM. I have latest imagery and it would improve accuracy. Otherwise a regular guy, I enjoy hiking, snowboarding. I really love how world is becoming a better place with Google Maps and Google Earth. 

Cheers,

Lorik 

[Godfrey Fairchild]

Hi Everyone,
My name is Godfrey, born and bred in Zimbabwe and I now reside in
United Kingdom.I have a passion for google maps and google earth in
fact I take mapping as a pastime.I have travelled so much in Zimbabwe
and Europe.Currently I am studying BSc Hons Aerospace Engineering.On
my next visit to Zimbabwe I am planning to take a GPS camera and share
the pictures of the country on this forum.I love studying Mathematics
and most of the subjects that has number applications.The earth is
round but its contours and man-made features are better explained by
maps.It is essential to provide the detailed information that
catographers take for granted that way this world shall be a better
place with all places known to man.


All the best,

Godfrey.

[Kumar]

Hi,

I am from Mumbai, the busiest city in India. I love map making, its fun. I am Heading a finance and admin. department for a multinational company. Whenever I get time I do mapping.

Thanks.

[Diego Pandiani]

Hello guys! I'm from Caracas, Venezuela. I´m 31 years old, and I like a lot this feature of google maps. It's very interesting and fun (only if you know where are you). I learned to use maps and gps by myself I have a good sense of orientation. I hope to help mark several landmarks in my country.

Let's keep marking

Best Regards

Diego

[su]

Hi , I am Supriya from India. I have just completed my studies and joined a job . Few days ago , I satted working on Map makers and i find it pretty interesting ,. I want to go more into it because i love travelling and this somehow connects me with it.

regards

Supriya

[Anjan]

Hi all, I'm Anjan from India. I'm doing business related with IT.
Since a long i'm updating GMM, starting from my my own city Siliguri.
I love Music, Electronics, trekking off roads, Mapping etc. at present
Mapping is one of my best hobby even sometime i find out myself
continuously doing editing at night in my DREAM.. lol..

[Shiv Anand]

Hi all friends! My Name is Shiv Anand Jangid and I live in kishangarh
district Ajmer Rajasthan state of India, I feel great to work at
computers and Internet. At the Map Maker Forum please all help me
crawl. Thank you

Your new friend ..........
Shiv Anand Jangid
feelm...@gmail.com

[Alejo]

Mi name is Alejandro i am currently living in the Commonwealth of Dominica (Between Martinique and Guadalupe). I am in love with designs, in particular, maps, i think i can contribute to make Google maps grow up. I have a  lot to describe about this country of the Caribbean bacause our maps are not updated and not accurate apart from the capital, new constructions have been edified.  

[Mwania]

Dear Mapping Gurus!

Am Michael Mwania from Nairobi,Kenya.
Am an experienced map maker currently working in the National Mapping
Agency in Kenya.

I love travelling,playing lawn tennis,learning new ideas especially in
the IT sector.

I thank Google family for introducing Google Map Maker,its just a
bomb!!

[Naresh Sharma]

I am Naresh Sharma. I am from Nepal and study in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I used to mapping mostly Nepal but do moderation wherever possible. One of the example was the mapping of all major road network (Highway, Motorway) throughout the country. By mappying so that it will help people to find out there map.

Thanks for your time.

Naresh Sharma

[syed @The Knowledge Foundation Chennai]

Hi mappers,

I am Syed Nazir Razik living at Chennai, India . I am Secretary
General for The Knowledge Foundation, an NGO that powers events like
Barcamp Chennai, Proto.in, Search Camp, Podworks, Mobile Monday
Chennai, Buzz140, Ideacamp, and Facebook Garage. I work as Managing
partner (Fuente Systems Inc. ) and Director - Project Management for
Railsfactory.org . Certified PMP since 2005 and Practicing SCRUM
manager since 2007. I work with a lot of entreprenuers.

I network a lot and travel across India and Far East often . Whenever
i go to a new city I explore for the best food joints there.

Syed Nazir Razik

On Jan 7, 6:11 am, Adam Lasnik <lasnik+...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi mappers,
>
> I just realized that we've been interacting for quite some time now, but
> most of us haven't had the pleasure of meeting each other in person... so I
> figured the least we could do is introduce ourselves! :)  Feel free to share
> as much or little as you'd like... about what you do for fun and for work,
> what you enjoy mapping, where you live, if you blog about geo-stuff or
> anything else, and so on.
>
> I'm Adam, an American guy living in California in the city of Mountain View,
> which is near San Francisco and also is the home of Google headquarters
> (where I work).  I'm a Program Manager for Map Maker and part of the
> Community team.  And though I love maps and traveling around the world, I'm
> relatively new to the mapping arena, having previously focused on Search at
> Google.
>
> I enjoy swing dancing, playing piano, working out, and doing geeky things
> (like posting on my blog, twitter, etc.).
>

> But enough about me!  *How about you?*

[Marcos David]

Hi everyone!

My name is Marcos and I from São Paulo, Brazil.

I'm a designer and a Google Earth Modeler. Love G Earth! Love G maps. I love to learn about everything that can be good to me and help others. 

I love take photograph too much!

[diesher]

Hi guys,
I´m Herman Diessongo, 28 years old,  living in Munich (Germany), but originally from Ouagadougou, Burkina faso.
I´m a research associate in the field of Earth observation based on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS including GPS, Galileo, Glonass and Compass).
I think Google Map Maker is great stuff and offers many countries in the world their first up to date, rich and complete geospatial data infrastructure. If you analyze also
the impact that such an infrastructure can have on our community, it encourages to keep on mapping.

So keep it real!

[sujisathya]

I made an edit that was denied by some user. I wish to know how I can delete/remove that edit from google map maker?

sujith puthalath 

[Abuzar Shirani]

Hi everybody !!

 

                     I am Dr.Abuzar Shirani from Islamabad,Pakistan.I have just started moderating Google Maps....

 

                     I am also great lover of Photography....

[bengaluru columbus]

thanks 

[Mel and Co]

Hi all,
I'm from MYANMAR. Just founded map making, however, I've known this
since I've watch a wonderful podcast from TED.com, about map being
started doing by Users around the world when Cyclone Nargis hit
Myanmar. Thanks all of you for your efforts, and I want to contribute
some of my effort too. I'm an designer, as a designer my works has
been around with Sketchup Software since It's was announced. I'm a
user of 5+ years old, and I'm not amaze that Google bought it under
his wing later that. Because, it's been a really help with it's
3DWarehouse, newer Sketchup Pro 8 and Sketchup for free. Because, I'm
constantly making my models and 3d sketches with Sketchup, I've found
some of the tools that is available since Google took over. Ability
to export KMZ files, which I can locate and Plot on the Google Earth
program. So, I've turn this tools and started a company called mel
and co. (Creative Engineering), using Sketchup and Google Earth to
Design and Construct works. It's been a quite success since I've
imported Good Satellite Pictures with Google Earth Pro, Putting models
of 3D Home and Playground so I can show it to my clients, and they are
amazed with it. It's has been a success. So this is my pay back to
what is worth helping me build my works and my company.. I want to
contribute to community what I can. Thank you for all, and nice
sharing with you and Privilege to be working with you all.

regards,
Hla Myint Oo.

[Skgangar]

H!!!!!!
I m Sunil Gangar ,
I did my B.Tech in Computer science and presently I m working in
Promotional website Indiamart,i just do mapping so dat it will get
easier for others to find locations.i love traveling and meeting new
people.

[Shabbar Lokhandwala]

Hi ..  I am SHABBAR from India ...I have Sound Hiring Company ...And in Spare time I am completely dedicated to Mapping ... some people needs help ... so it is Good to help knowingly or unknowingly  ...Happy Mapping ..

[richard belho]

Hi I'm Richard Belho, an Architect from Nagaland,India, specialising
in Bamboo Construction. Am into Permaculture and Organic Gardening
too. Like Music and Video games. I believe in reaching out first and
this google platform will be a powerful portal to bring everyone
closer together

[deepak dubey]

hiiiiii , this is deepak , welcome to google map makers

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[Shabbar Lokhandwala]

Hey ... Welcome ....So Happy Mapping...

Some of the tips .. i want to give you ... That when you make Road ... Pls .zoom as possible and try to give each road rather than just mentioning road .. 

Regards 

Shabbar 

[Bach le]

Hello everyone!

I'm Le Bach, 31 years old, I'm an architect, currently living and working in the Ministry of Construction of Vietnam. My desire is to contribute to GMK Vietnam to introduce a friend of my country around the world.

Body!

[Praveen CR]

Hi Adam,

I need help to re map the marker location, will you be able to help me
please ?

Thanks
Praveen CR
India

[Amer]

Hello Guys,
I am Amer from Iraq..Specialist in GIS/Remote sensing (MSc.)..Have passion to digital maps and would like to digitize every signle place in my country!..thats why iam joing this great forum.
Thanks

[Xadoko]

I am Max. I am A Ugandan living in Kampala. I work in Kampala though previously i worked in other districts offering Technical support in the field  of Internet and Mobile Telephony across Uganda.

I love mapping and the ability to replicate what is on ground on to our Google Map.  Other things i like are swimming, watching rugby and travelling around whether by Road air or Water.

[Tsogt Tom]

Hi,

My name is Tsogt and I am from Mongolia.

I work at Datacom LLC as a senior manager.

I mostly map in Mongolia.

Are you guys coming to Singapore for 2011 meeting for mapper.

Greatly waiting to meet you guys over there.

Thank you and good day.

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Best regards,

Sh. Tsogt

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 14:46, Xadoko <max....@gmail.com> wrote:

I am Max. I am A Ugandan living in Kampala. I work in Kampala though previously i worked in other districts offering Technical support in the field  of Internet and Mobile Telephony across Uganda.

I love mapping and the ability to replicate what is on ground on to our Google Map.  Other things i like are swimming, watching rugby and travelling around whether by Road air or Water.

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[Prabhath Wickramasinghe]

Im Prabhath,
Just joined the forum few hours ago. Curiosity drove me here because I
love travelling and enjoy the chills and thrills of finding places
and adventure.
I realized yesterday when i was googling via my mobile that some road
names and places were wrong. So thought of sharing some correct
information.
I love the beach..music and hanging around in town and nice places. I
play guitar like games and new tech things etc.. Im originally from
Sri Lanka which is a very beautiful island. Im here in Seychelles as
an expact employed by Hilton Seychelles Northholme Resort and Spa.
I think thats enough :)

[Ulzii]

Hi All,

My name is Ulzii who like to contribute Mongolian environmental data on the GMM.

I would like to add following feature categories to the GMM fit for Mongolian condition which is traditional nomadic life and booming mining issues of this country. If my request is posted on wrong discussion session, please forward it to the appropriate one.

 

1. Haymaking site

Description: Haymaking is a method of conserving grass for feeding cattle, sheep, goat, horse and camel through the winter and has been an important function of livestock for many years.

In Mongolia, high productivity grassland sites are establishing for the haymaking which has been designating by Mongolian government on local and state level.

 

2. Grassbank

Description: In Mongolia, the grassbank is a reserved grassland site for nomadic herders to share it during weather emergency condition such as long term heavy snow fall and drought years. Mongolian government has been designing many sites as the grassbank.

This feature will be helpful to map land use coverage.

 

3. Mining – open

Description: The open (active) mining is a site on ground or underground where implementing a mining project by mining company.

Ongoing mining project brings infrastructure and settlement to the site. The legend will be helpful to contribute features on the map.

 

4. Mining - Closed

Description: The closed mining is no more active mining operation on the site by mining company. Closed mining could be either rehabilitated or not habilitated.

If we use this category, it will be helpful to recognize environmental condition from the map.

 

5. Mining - Artisanal

Description: Artisanal mining is an established site by artisanal miners or small-scale miners who are not officially employed by a mining company, but rather work independently, mining or panning for gold using their own resources.

Artisanal mining site left deep hole, tunnel, and exposed chemical toxic which cause people and animal fall down to the dug hole and to be poisoned from toxic. If we feature it on map it will be very helpful to avoid unwanted accidents.

Regards,

Ulziisaikhan Vanchindorj

[Ali Rehmat Musofer]

Hi

 

I am Ali Rehmat from Hunza Pakistan working for google map since 1999.

 

 

www.local.com.pk/hunza

www.local.com.pk

 

 

 

regards

 

 

[Zahid Sumayari]

Hi, GMM Team,

My name is Zahid Hussain, from Sumayar Nagar Gilgit Pakistan.

I have been mapping since 2009, but introduce myself on this forum today.

I love mapping of my country. But always try to Moderate somewhere in the world and help in pending edits.

Keep mapping, Thanks to Google Forum Team.

Best Regards,

Zahid Sumayari

[KA]

Hi

I am Khurram Ali (KA). I am a Software Engineer and based in Pakistan. I started mapping extensively on Map Maker last year. I still map but that much. My areas of interest are Lahore and Sheikhupura. Thanks to the power mappers Jabran, Faraz and Omer. They helped me a lot starting mapping. 

I do mapping with my interest. 

Thanks for reading

Regards

Khurram Ali Rasheed

[skyxiphoid]

sir, im mr. jhun pabustan from philippines, i would like to ask how to remove the location that i put on the map, its wrong location, i would like to move it on the exact location. thank you, 

[psalmsninetyone]

Hi. You can call me psalmsninetyone and I'm loving the map editing feature Google has provided us; makes it the most accurate map I've ever seen and reminds me of the goodness of community effort. Aside from that, I like learning...

[S Pantig]

Hi Jhun, 

I am S Pantig of Illinois-California.  I know you're new to this but on the left pane under Get Started, you can click on Help Center.  There you can type a topic like "Edit a map" and several useful topics will show up.  OR 

Log in to your Google account, and click Maps.  Zoom in to map you created until "Edit" appears  and click "Edit" (right pane, next to "Print").  Click "My Edits" (left pane).  Click on title of map you created (left pane, under "Published changes").  A message box appears (right pane), click "Edit".  From "Edit" drop down/down arrow, click "Edit this place".  A shaded polygon comes up.  Zoom in "+" or zoom out "-" to get a better picture. As you zoom in, white dots/points appear on polygon's border.  Click & drag one point at a time and release to the location you want. Use "Pan Arrows" - the Up/Down/Left/Right Arrows (above Zoom In "+" symbol) for navigation.  Right-click to delete excess point/s.  When you're done, click Save (left pane) and you should be all set.

[Anas Qtiesh]

Hello All,

My name is Anas, I'm a Syrian blogger, freelance translator, and tech enthusiast. I'm a research assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard  University. I'm also a co-editor at Global Voices Online and an author for an Arabic tech blog that focuses on Android: ardroid.com. Back in Syria I was a volunteer for the Syrian Red Crescent for over 9 years, so I really appreciate everything GMM does to assist humanitarian organizations in times of crises, man-made or natural.

I'm currently based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and will be relocating
soon to San Francisco.

Regards,
Anas

[Alex Covarrubias]

Hola, Alex Covarrubias from Monterrey here. I've always been interested in geography and when I found out I could edit Google Maps I fell instantly in love with the project. I've been editing since then (just a couple of weeks ago) and I must admit that it is a great pleasure. Especially to somebody like myself that loves to keep all in order and up-to-date.

 

It's a real pleasure to spend your time contributing to make Google Maps better. It surely helps us all.

[Dr. Jacob Abraham]

Hello, I am Dr. Jacob Abraham from chennai, India , presently studying in SRM dental college for Post graduate (Orthodontics) , i love this website and i keep on adding some details to which i believe I sure of... Keep smiling, God Bless all

[ponnu samy]

hi i am samy i want mark more than places in map so helt to me, how
add the places in map k

On 3/18/11, S Pantig <spa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Jhun,
>
> I am S Pantig of Illinois-California. I know you're new to this but on the

> left pane under *Get Started*, you can click on Help Center. There you can

> type a topic like "Edit a map" and several useful topics will show up. OR
>
> Log in to your Google account, and click Maps. Zoom in to map you created
> until "Edit" appears and click "Edit" (right pane, next to "Print"). Click
> "My Edits" (left pane). Click on title of map you created (left pane, under
> "Published changes"). A message box appears (right pane), click "Edit".
> From "Edit" drop down/down arrow, click "Edit this place". A shaded
> polygon comes up. Zoom in "+" or zoom out "-" to get a better picture. As
> you zoom in, white dots/points appear on polygon's border. Click & drag one
> point at a time and release to the location you want. Use "Pan Arrows" - the
> Up/Down/Left/Right Arrows (above Zoom In "+" symbol) for navigation.
> Right-click to delete excess point/s. When you're done, click Save (left
> pane) and you should be all set.
>

[Jaypee]

I'm John, from Philippines

[aruna chalam]

i am aruna from india, hope that all will help me to build a real time world

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Jaypee <virtual...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm John, from Philippines

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[sanjeev bajaj]

Hi,
I m Sanjeev from India. I like listening music, draw pictures and playing cricket. I like to watch Discovery tv and National geographic.

Thanx & Regds
Sanjeev

[Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji]

hi :) 

I am Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji

Was mapping here since 3 years ago !!

last year I was more Active and also Distinguished Mapmaker . maybe I can name myself webmaster too .

21 years old and Studying Physics in Babol , Iran.

some of my well Mapped Cities in Google is Kish . http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kish+iran&aq=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=56.724997,135.263672&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Kish&ll=26.542005,53.978062&spn=0.126848,0.264187&z=13

I am also a photographer ( better say VR photographer ) and about 2 years on 360cities http://www.360cities.net/profile/mohammadreza

 any way I wish I could be a  Google Map Maker Advocate, but I think cause this year I wasnt so active Google Forgot me :P

[ashanth antony]

You can use the option edit in your maping

[Manoj Patil]

Hi, I am Manoj Patil.

 

I am from Mumbai, India. And recently moved to Pune.

 

I am an Electronics Engineer from Mumbai University.

 

Currently I am working with CAPITA Group UK at their Pune office and I am ETL Tester.

 

I started using google map maker about one year back. and Whenever possible i add few entries.

 

Thanks,

 

Manoj

[Fiifi Baidoo]

Hi all, am Fiifi Baidoo from Ghana, an avid cartographer. I plan to host a couple of Mapping parties this year. Hope I can learn a lot from you all.

[Francis Nkrumah Acheampong]

Hello Fiifi,
I'm Nkrumah Acheampong Tawiah, U can call on me for the necesssary assistance.
I am in Kumasi, and I can be reached on 0243177559 / 0203177559
Together we build.

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[luis angel macayo gomez]

Hola, soy de Venezuela y actualmente estoy mapeando "mapping" la zona oriente del pais!. Colaboro con Ciudades como Puerto la cruz Barcelona y Lecherias, ademas de otros pueblos pequeños ....

Happy Mapping

[endospores]

Hi my name is Alan.  I live in Venezuela.  As i work with research institutes around the country, i spend a lot of time on the road and know many areas quite well, so i reckoned i could improve certain maps as i use maps a lot to help me navigate to places i've never been at.  I've edited and added quite a bit in the last few weeks and seem to be doing it well as my edits have rarely been rejected.  I look forward to learn a lot from this forum. Cheers :)

[Limoke Oscar]

Hello,
Am Limoke Oscar,a Kenyan GIS student with a passion for Maps,techy-staff,a blogger,twitter and staff.I hope my mapping contributions locally in Kenya will have global relevance and local usage.
Regards,

[Rohit88]

Hi, I am Rohit from Chennia, India. Would like to contribute to Google Maps, basically to help people who are new to this area. 

[Mohamed]

Hi mappers,

I'm Mohamed Amarochan from Morocco, North Africa. I live in Tangier.

I am a civil engineering final year student.

I like to travel, and I'm in love with Google :D

All the best.

Next, فاث Arabic version :)

أهلا أصدقاء،

محمد أعمروشا من المغرب، أقيم في طنجة حاليا.

طالب جامعي تخصص هندسة مدنية، السنة الأخيرة.

أهوى السفر، وكوكل :)

تحياتي للجميع.

[Сейдалы Дуйсебаев]

Greetings my name - Sejdaly. I live in Kazakhstan. As I work with scientific research institutes on all country, I spend much time on road and I know many areas quite well, thus, I considered that could improve certain cards, as I use cards much to help me to spend to places, I never was century I have edited and have added quite a little for last some weeks and, apparently, I do it well as I edits, seldom deviated. I expect to study much from this forum. Greetings :)

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bay Seyid Ali

[nurzhan sadirbekuly]

Greetings to you Seidaly!
Everything is wonderful. I see your work. You do a good job, although you are new among us. I want to say that we should contribute to Google Map has worked in the Kazakh language. We must translate Google into their language.
Sincerely, Nurzhan

 

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[Ulzii]

Hi team,

I am Ulziisaikhan Vanchindorj from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia who got Master of Engineering-GIS degree from University of Colorado at Denver and completed 99% of Land Surveying and Mapping Program from Metropolitan State College of the Denver. Now, I works on TNC Mongolia Program office by GIS Analyst. I like to adapt Google products in my life and business. I draw geo features of Mongolia to GMM. Also, I develop application software to Android Phone. My latest application is Climate Data Finder which gives climate information of any point of terrestrial land of the earth. I became member of the GMM when it release to public. So far, I am  edited over 1000 features. Now, I  am getting to change my direction from a GMM digitizer to helper of Mongolian users of the GMs, Google Places and Google doc based on my knowledge. 

I like to hike and discuss changes of high tech business.

Regards,

Ulzii

[athar]

Hello every one,

Im Athar Gorchani MPA, from rajanpur Punjab Pakistan.

im New to mapping, kindly help me.

i want to map my area as quickly as possible.

iv done my MBA in Marketin and ITfrom LSE.

Plz help can any one tell me how to become a moderator and reviewer ?

[momers]

Athar, Welcome,
 Good to have you here...and yes we would like to see Rajanpur mapped quickly and accurately!

Please visit https://groups.google.com/forum/?pli=1#!forum/mapping-pakistan, the Pakistani map makers user group. you will find a lot of helpful info there!

to get started visit this site too: http://geography.pk/_en

see you!

[athar]

Thanx bro, but i need to talk to some one on phone  so that i get a clear view about what time it takes to be a real map maker, and what time it take for an edit to be online, so that when i get some spare time from my political activities, i should spend it on google maps. i see so many mistakes on the map, in Rajanpur and DG Khan, some portion of Rajanpur is shown as DG Khan area, which a big mistake, how correct that ?

plz can you give me some cell number or wot ?

[momers]

This is the best place to talk, other members can guide you too.

Post your questions to the Pakistan mapping forum, link I have shared above.

[Aadarsh Raveendra]

my name is Aadarsh Raveendra,I'm living in a remote are of kerala. so
i could build roads and and i can help to build the maps good!!!

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>
> Post your questions to the Pakistan mapping forum, link I have shared above.
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[Ulzii]

Make a Map Book Using Google Maps

http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-a-Map-Book-Using-Google-Maps/

[عبد العزيز الوفائي‎]

Peace be upon you map makers,

I'm Abdul Aziz, a Syrian guy living in Abu Dhabi the capital of United Arab Emirates.At startI liked the idea of ​​city planning, I thought in the planning of the city that I love, my hometown city of Homs,In the heart of our beloved Syria.Now the idea has developed ,I have been working on further additions ,For example, add the names of cafes, schools, mosques, churches, restaurants, and many things.

anyhow

I wish you comfortable planning.

 

 

[Peeyush Shankhareman]

Hello Everybody.. I am Peeyush from Kolkata, India. I like mapping. I am a software engineer (fresher) waiting for my  final exams and joining date..

[athar]

ok.

So what if made a mistake, how to correct it ?

For how long my edits will be reviewed and aouthorised by others ?

After how long i will be able to post directly ?

[Levan Beruchashvili]

I am Levan Beruchashvili from Georgia i am 26 work GIS Specialist work in this spetiality 10 years love to travel; and love Gis job

[Azam Hussain]

Hello,

That's quite a good place to start and introduce ourselves, Myself Azam, working as a GIS Engineer for a Telematics groups in the Middle East.
I love to travel and with the current Job I have see seen part of the world and hope to see the rest in few other years ;)

I love to be what I am and hopefully nobody would regret knowing me in person.

thanks to all.

[Daniel Minsk]

Hello I am Daniel Minsk (firemandan9) the Google Student Ambassador for NC State University. I am very excited about Map Maker finally being available in the US and think I might have gone a bit overboard trying to figure out the tools for the and requesting far to many changes quickly and without knowing what data is appropriate to enter. Already getting some feedback from moderators which is great, at this point it is frustrating that I cannot further edit objects I have started until they have cleared some level of moderation. I also keep getting tons of errors regarding intersecting existing objects which are a bit frustrating. 

More about me I am an undergraduate in Material Science Engineering, and have been interested in the Google Maps project since I saw the ambassador summit presentation this past summer. I have llamas and alpacas at my home in Waxhaw and enjoying mountain biking and hiking on local trails. 

I am again sorry for flooding the NC State map with very rough data, hopefully I can sort it out this weekend with others help. 

[Dany]

Can you tel me how Can i review other ppl's maps?

[Colby Guyer]

Hi I'm Colby,
I a web application programmer from Lewistown, Pennsylvania. I am heavily involved with the local community and even run a community website for the area. I have been using Google Services since the beginning and prob a lifer haha. I enjoy improving my community in real life and online as well, obviously why I'm on here. See ya all around.

-Colby
VisitingMifflinCounty.com

[George Bowman]

I am webmaster for Texas Trails Network (http://TexasTrails.org) as well as GIS analyst at a Bicycle / Pedestrian Planning firm. I would like to find out if there is a way to upload ESRI shape files or GPS tracks on behalf of the planning firms clients (usually Park and Rec Departments) or Texas Trails Network members (again, usually Park and Rec staff or trail users).

[RichieTJ]

Hello to all. My name is Juan R. Perez, and I'm the IT Manager at City Hall in Loíza, Puerto Rico. I'm a Google Maps Fan, and now that I have the chance, I'd love to show everyone what our town have and help also people that visit us. 

And yes, still waiting for Street View in PR.

[Jeffrey Fina]

My name is Jeff, From Orange County NY. Avid Googler, all public and some testing google services. Well traveled and looking forward to a more social google!

[TheaGlitter]

Hey Y'all

My name is Thea and I live in Texas. I'm looking forward to seeing how everything works.

Best

[Ryan Unger]

Hello!  My name is Ryan Unger and I live in Shenandoah County, Virginia.  I am currently looking at Google Map Maker for the first time.  I am trying to learn how to make edits.  What has surprised me so far is the number of location markers that are not accurately centered on the buildings they are intended for. 

[Matt Bryant]

Hello All,

My name is Matt and I live in Menlo Park, California (near Stanford University). I spend a lot of time at the University of California, San Diego, where I am a graduate student in the Communications PhD program. I have a love of maps/map making and information visualization, so it is great to be a participant in this community. I'm looking forward to seeing how it develops.

Cheers,

Matt

[Certifried]

My name is Mark, and I've been using Google maps for a long time now. I've always tried to help make it better by reporting inaccuracies when I found them, and now I'm so excited that Map Maker has been released! I really look forward to making Google Maps even better than it is

[Michael]

Greetings!  My name is Michal Fox and I am the IT director for the Land, Buildings and Real Estate department at Stanford University.  Stanford has been very interested, and active, in updating and improving Google Maps coverage of the campus.  We are looking forward to involving more members of the Stanford Community in this effort through Mapmaker.

[rjhintz]

Hi Michael,

  Please don't delete the big CAL I'm putting in the middle of your stadium. It's really a legitimate feature.

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[Christopher Niebylski]

Add me to the growing Mapmaker community - I live in Washington DC and have been busy trying out Mapmaker for the past two days - although for some reason whichever Mapmaker servers I'm hanging off of this evening are running really slow (like all my requests are timing out slow). I'm sure it'll fix itself soon enough

Anyways, I'm a cyclist who bike-commutes to work every day, so getting the chance to contribute some of my local knowledge is rewarding.  There are a few things that Maps doesn't quite capture for some of the roads and trails around DC, so its nice to be able to update and hopefully get more accurate data out onto the screens of people who can use it. 

[Michael]

Just make sure the tree logo that I am planning for Memorial Stadium at Cal gets approved.  ;)

[Tanweer Alam]

Hi its Tanweer from India. Presently persuing M.Tech from IIT Kharagpur.