The creator of the Google Mapmaker, Lalit Katragadda, spoke with CIO Pakistan about Pakistan’s quick response to populating the Mapmaker, making us one of the fastest countries to map ourselves. Lalit addresses his vision for the Mapmaker, privacy issues and how developers in Pakistan can use APIs to develop feature-rich applications to help the community at-large.
Soundbyte: Google Mapmaker Creator, Lalit Katragadda, Talks about Pakistan
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[...] Google Inc. launched Map Maker, a tool that allows users to draw and edit maps on top of satellite imagery. It has received great uptake by users across the world, and most notably (and perhaps surprisingly for the rest of the world), Pakistan. In this sea of crowd-sourced-and-moderated map making, Lahore became the quickest-mapped city thanks to the collective efforts of Pakistani mappers around the world. It was because of this, CIO also ventured out online to land a really wonderful phone interview with Lalit Katragadda, creator of the Map Maker tool. [...]
Thanks. This was very informative.
Google Mapmaker is one of the most useful tools I’ve ever used. For instance, I went to a remote village near Mardan few weeks back and it was all mapped. It was even available on the Google Maps application for mobile phones!
Hats off to Google Mapmaker.