Rhys Blakely in The Times:
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Photo: Google’s Street View feature for Google Maps enables users to see certain parts of several big US cities through panoramic images.
An army of amateur online cartographers is embarking on what could prove the most concerted effort to map India since the British Empire tackled the task.
Fed up with getting lost in Bangalore, the sprawling centre of India’s IT industry, a team of engineers from Google, the net’s largest search engine, has devised a tool to let web users annotate and amend satellite images to produce useful maps.
Within weeks of its launch, tens of thousands of Indians have filled in details of their cities, towns and villages, many of them previously blank spaces in even the most up-to-date atlases. The technology, which is being extended to other “information-deficient” regions, such as Africa, is widely viewed as the future of map-making and is on course to be worth billions for Google in advertising revenues.
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