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Google launches collaborative My Maps editing

Collaborative Google Maps
Google has added a collaboration feature to the My Maps section of Google Maps. What does that mean? Essentially you can create a custom map, and then open it up for other people to edit.

Say, for example you're planning a trip to Chicago with friends. You want to use Google Maps to plot the places you should visit when you're there. You can find a few destinations and add them to the map and then add your friends as collaborators and they can each add more points to the map.

You can also create a map that anyone can edit by selecting "allow anyone to edit this map." This feature could come in handy for conspiracy nuts plotting UFO sightings or recreational runners looking for good running paths.

Filed under: Internet, Web services, Google

Google Maps adds community maps to search results

Google Maps community maps
Google is starting to add user-generated information to Google Maps search results. For example, if you search for "bike paths in New York," several of the top results will include a note showing where the East River Bike Path narrows as well as listings for bike shops. The user-generated results show up with blue icons, and for this particular query are a lot more accurate than the standard results.

Google Maps users have been able to create personalized maps for a while now by adding notes to various locations and saving the maps to "my maps." In case you had any illusions that this was private data, this is the pool of information Google is using to beef up its search results.

If you'd rather not share your favorite coffee shop with the whole world, just make sure not to set your personalized map to public.

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