March 18, 2008

Add new locations to Google Maps

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A while back, Google Maps gave people the ability to edit the locations of businesses

.  If you know of a local business that has moved or closed, you can edit it on the map.  These screens show me removing a local Dairy Queen that recently closed:

Find Dairy Queen listingDairy Queen information bubbleEdit Dairy Queen listingRemoving Dairy Queen

Now they’ve enhanced the user editing feature of Google Maps and now allow you to add new items to the map.  I wanted to add one, but the few new places near us were already in there.  However, adding a new location is very easy:

  • Search the listings.
  • Click the “Add a place to the map” link at the bottom of the left column
  • Drag the marker to the location of the business, fill in the details, and submit it.
  • That’s it!

Here are a few screens of how that would be done:

Click the Add button in the lower left cornerDrag the marker to the proper location and fill in the info

With any of those editing features, Google still keeps a copy of the original listing, along with a record of each change that is made.  All of this will only serve to make the data in Google Maps even more accurate for everyone to use.

Comments

  1. hi this a ramesh ,
    i am regular user of google earth watcing maps on my mobile ,there is a place located in in between allahabad ,Varanasi east sidevaranasi n weast side allahabad south mirzapur n north is jaunpur ,the place is quiet very intrested its one of the peace full caring river ganga just step ahead ,i want to show my village in world map ,pleas send me the detail about your how i can add my place in google maps

  2. hi
    i’m Harsimran i want to display my villege location at google map.
    so kindly let me know what i should do for this .i’m waiting for your reply.
    Thanks
    Harsimran

  3. I am from Pakistan, a tried to enter a location but error shows that “We do not support adding a place here yet”….:-( what’s this?

  4. cant add a place in google maps, get the screen where you type in the name of the palce and then hit the next button, and nothing happens.

  5. sir in this age of the Global village my Tayyab village is not on the world map
    we feel so woried about this.

    Name of our village:   Tayyab Jokhio village
     
    Address:                      Gulsha-e-Iqbal, Block-9, Karachi Sindh Pakistan
    postel code:                 44000

                        Sir, we all villagers hope  you, to put it in the Google World Public Map.
                                       
                          that we all will be so thank full to you sir.
                            
                                   Thanking you: Ghulam Shabbir shah
     

  6. Yavapai County, Arizona has changed the address of my house.  How does that address get changed to the new one in Google Maps

  7. My village Dakhan situated on indus high way n55 .but it is not appearing on Google map as well Android.and other near by places .how can I add it my Android and Google map as my location.

  8. The Limra Academy
    Nusery to High School
    Gulshan-e-Arafath Colony
    Hagarga Cross, Ring Road
    GULBARGA 585104
    Karnataka state,
    INDIA

  9. hi
    i’m dipak i want to display my villege location at google map.
    so kindly let me know what i should do for this .i’m waiting for your reply.
    Thanks
    Harsimran

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