[talk-ph] Google Map Maker is now enabled for the Philippines

Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 22 12:25:11 BST 2008


Or at least Metro Manila.

See http://www.google.com/mapmaker and zoom into Metro Manila.

The normal Google Maps (http://maps.google.com) still shows the wildly
inaccurate street data but the data shown for Map Maker is quite impressive!
They practically have 95% of Metro Manila covered. But I have to say that
their data for Fort Bonifacio Global City is quite outdated. Hehehe.

Basing on the quality of the data alone, I'm certain that Google will push
this to the normal Google Maps soon.

How do you think will this affect our efforts at OSM? To be sure, I'll still
contribute to OSM since I want freely-licensed street data--not one that is
copyrighted to Google alone.

Cheers,
Eugene Villar
-- 
http://vaes9.codedgraphic.com
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