The
Google Lat Long blog noted a new
viewer so anyone can watch changes the company's map database, in something like real time. While it's fun to watch the little bubbles pop up (you zoom around the map as do; most I saw were about an hour old), I'm thinking of questions I'd like to ask about the edits:
Who's doing them?
What's getting moved most - residences? businesses?
Do certain geographies get more edits?
Do edits jump at certain times of day? Times of year?
What's the relationship of the geography of the editor to the geography being edited?
I couldn't agree more. Content without metadata is like a bread sandwich. We need to know not how, but what and why!
Have a great day.
It looks like some of your questions can be easilty answered. In the top right corner of the editor page, there is a "enetr location to edit" link. You must have a gmail account to do so. I was able to move some businesses that were not propoerly positioned, but was told that residences were restricted. I need to investigate this further. It appears though that anyone in the world can make edits!
What is weird is that once you submit the edit, you can see the new location when you look it up in google maps. However, if you do driving directions, the old locations are still being used. Not sure why this is happening.