| Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | Geo Mark | 7/29/11 2:26 PM | Hi everyone, One common question we see on this forum is how to report an data error in Google Earth. If the error you've found has to do with the name or location of a street/house/business/buildin (and many other geographical features), I'm happy |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | barryhunter | 7/31/11 1:08 PM | ... if it's a country currently available in the Map Maker program of course :) http://www.google.com/mapmaker/mapfiles/s/launched.html |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | Geo Mark | 8/1/11 8:46 AM | Great point -- thanks for clarifying, Barry! |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | Geo Mark | 8/1/11 12:53 PM | And here's a more detailed Getting Started Guide... for those of you who get hooked after your first edit :) |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | YimChung | 8/15/11 4:09 AM | fixing would mean EDITING. there is no edit mode in map maker. just ADDING is not fixing. (besides that, counting errors in earth alone keeps you busy as an one armed bass player...) |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | Geo Mark | 8/15/11 3:26 PM | I will give you credit for a good analogy, Yim, but you can certainly edit using Google Map Maker. For instance, if you search for a place in Map Maker, you certainly have the ability to edit the relevant search listing (assuming there is something |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | umapathy | 8/19/11 3:09 AM | One notable problem with the mapmaker is that it's only designed to get the input from the users to make Google Earth good other than that there is no use for the user is he or she wants to use it in some other program like ArcGIS. Though I contribut |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | Geo Mark | 8/19/11 3:24 PM | Hi umpathy, Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Map Maker! As you know, it's a relatively new product, so feedback like this is very helpful to the folks who are working on it! Regarding your edits that have been denied, may I ask if you are using th |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | umapathy | 8/20/11 5:09 AM | Geomark, Thanks for the reply. Certainly GoogleMapMaker is one of the best cloud software available today with collaborative editing, that’s beyond the doubt. Concern here is the ease of editing and reusability (second para). There are many source |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | itsmikey12 | 8/24/11 12:58 PM | Hi GEOMARK and other Google gurus! I represent Emaar Properties, the developer of the tallest building in the world - The Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Our issue is that in Google Earth there are a lot of conflicting labels for the Bur |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | YorgosG | 8/30/11 2:06 PM | "I have been working as consultant with itsmikey12 and the Emaar Group http://www.emaar.com – developer of the world’s largest building. For the last 10 months we have been trying to get errors corrected in Google Earth respecting the name for the world’s t |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | Geo Mark | 8/30/11 3:32 PM | Hello to both of you from Dubai! Yorgos, thanks for clarifying. I think I see what you mean: Google Maps returns one balloon for Burj Khalifa, while Google Earth returns a collection of results. In contrast, the Empire State Building returns only one |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | barryhunter | 8/30/11 4:14 PM | For itsmikey12's issue, there is a thread:http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/earth/thread?tid=66680998f8c0f012&hl=en |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | YorgosG | 9/7/11 12:19 AM | Geo_Mark As suggested I posted my question to the Imagery/Data category but got a message that "Another Discussion addresses this question and this thread was closed. I note that barryhunter suggested another forum so for my questions and those of It |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | Geo Mark | 9/8/11 10:41 AM | Hi Yorgos, I'm looking into this issue; I just wanted you to start a new thread so that I could refer our team to an easy-to-read thread on this topic. I think Barry (one of our Top Contributors) was right to close the duplicate thread. When I have s |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | YorgosG | 9/11/11 11:21 AM | Mark Thanks. I note your observation that "the Empire State Building returns only one result in Google Earth". Can we learn from this in terms of the processes in place and how we could arrive at a similar outcome? We greatly appreciate your help an |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | YorgosG | 9/26/11 1:14 PM | Hi Mark You mentioned you were looking into our issues a couple of weeks back and havent heard a thing. As we mentioned it has been since October since we have been trying to correct the errors in Google Earth and your earlier posts gave us real hop |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | YorgosG | 10/7/11 12:13 PM | Mark Could you (or any other Power Users) pls let me know what is the status of the round blue i (information) markers. Are they like the red push pins essentially official (or more official) Google approved (or would these be user generated). Here |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | Priestess | 12/23/11 10:08 AM | What about editing private address it is not letting me do this is there anything else I can do? My parents bought a place in north Carolina alot of people thought it wou;ld be cool to look it up on google esrth since they will probably never get th |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | lapetiteferme | 12/25/11 4:22 PM | I have submitted errors on google earth a number of times but there is no correction to the plan of our property we live in a small hamlet of 3 houses all less than 100feet from each other but google map puts us a mile apart! how soon should we have |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | sagirsultan | 1/17/12 10:38 PM | And what if mapmaker does not cover that country? |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | glpri | 1/24/12 10:14 AM | My English is very bad, excuse me please: How do I know (I see), so I earth in the update installation of google get the message "error during execution Earth.exe google"? Even after deleting the old version and reinstalling (new version) is the same |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | Mallickda010 | 2/24/12 12:21 AM | problem in pc. |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | dionysusxxyyzz | 5/14/12 2:12 AM | greetings :) i frequently use the Earth since 2007 for many purposes. now, my company gives me additional responsibility which include geographical data and locations for many places in Indonesia. i see that there are some mistakes in place's names i |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | ahmad zaki andarabi | 5/17/12 10:31 AM | hey fuckers my can't get access to google erht. |
| Re: Found an Error in Google Earth? Try fixing it yourself with Google Map Maker! | dadozg | 7/31/12 4:22 PM | |
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