Fwd: Google Maps for Pakistan.

[Badar Khushnood]

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From: Badar Khushnood <ba...@google.com>
Date: Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:01 PM
Subject: Google Maps for Pakistan.
To: undisclosed-recipients

Salam all,

Google has recently enabled map editing features in a wiki like fashion for Pakistan. The official announcement is here: http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/06/making-your-mark-on-world.html

Anyone with a Google (Gmail) Account can add roads, landmarks, etc. to the map and moderate the entries made by other people e.g. here's a portion of Main Boulevard in Gulberg, Lahore: http://www.google.com/mapmaker?gw=10&ll=31.518099,74.341822&spn=0.028426,0.067635&t=h&z=15 . For getting stared please view this: http://www.google.com/mapmaker/mapfiles/s/support.html

Please follow the link to Pakistan's mapmaker wiki page and discussion thread from here: http://sites.google.com/site/mapmakeruserhelp/user-guide/editable-regions

In order for this to work, we will have to contribute to it collectively. Use your Google Account to log into http://www.google.com/mapmaker , you will see an interface very similar to Google Maps with added controls to find and add features. You can add features such as Placemarks (mark a location such as a business or school); draw roads, rivers; draw regions to mark areas such as a park or neighborhoods.

Hope you find this interesting & helpful.

Regards,

Badar Khushnood
Pakistan Country Consultant
Google Inc.
M: +92.300.8486070
E: ba...@google.com
E: ba...@badar.com.pk