Comment by goldfishgold
11 hours ago
I just opened maps and took a look. Kinda shocking to me that there doesn’t appear to be an obvious or easy way to add POI data. Google Maps is huge on promoting users to supply UGC.
11 hours ago
I just opened maps and took a look. Kinda shocking to me that there doesn’t appear to be an obvious or easy way to add POI data. Google Maps is huge on promoting users to supply UGC.
Google also tries to show the impact of user-submitted POI info to help people feel good about it and encourage more submissions.
I submitted a few minor location edits to make the markers more accurate. Occasionally I’ll get an email telling me how often my new location change has been used. It’s not enough to be annoying, I’m always just shocked at the impact. Back in July I got an email that one of my updates was viewed 500k times, for a little boat rental shop on the Great Lakes. It had been really hard to find with the former location of the marker. Another one edit in a more populated area had 1.7m views.
I’ve only made 3 edits, but I can where feedback like this could get a person make map updates as a hobby, especially if the map data still needs a lot of work. One person with some free time could have a massive impact on the maps data in their community.