{"id":14389,"date":"2013-02-27T20:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T00:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=14389"},"modified":"2013-02-27T20:53:47","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T00:53:47","slug":"new-report-a-problem-interface-to-mapmaker-rolled-out-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/new-report-a-problem-interface-to-mapmaker-rolled-out-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report a Problem Interface to MapMaker Rolled out in the US & France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago in Canada, \u00a0Google rolled out an Easier MapMaker Interface<\/a>\u00a0that took community edits made via the Report a Problem link on a G+ listing and integrated the input directly with MapMaker. That interface has now rolled out to the US. It does not appear that this interface has rolled out in England<\/a>\u00a0or Germany<\/a> but it has rolled out in France<\/a>\u00a0and Mexico<\/a>. I would be curious to hear what other countries do not have it yet and which do.<\/p>\n

The change means that all of the information changed by the public will now go directly into MapMaker and become part of the MM approval hierarchy; some edits will be bot approved or denied, some will be done by MM volunteer and some by Google staffers. As RER Andrew Sawyer pointed<\/a> out<\/a> two weeks ago, this change should improve addressing issues that revolved around discrepancies in between how Report a Problem \u00a0and MM handled things like suite numbers (although whether it will really solve the problem is unclear). It also means that comments made on Report a Problem form will be seen in MapMaker. It should also make it easier to achieve consistency across the Places Dashboard and the MM data. This is moving Google towards a simpler array of databases where changes reside prior to their approval and inclusion in the main Google Local index.<\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Here is a list from Google of countries that now have the new interface. For once Denmark was not left to last. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

AT – Austria
\nAU – Australia
\nBE – Belgium
\nCA – Canada
\nCH – Switzerland
\nDK – Denmark
\nFR – France
\nIN – India
\nMX – Mexico
\nNL – Netherlands
\nNO – Norway
\nPL – Poland
\nUA – Ukraine
\nUS – United States<\/p>\n

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