{"id":389280,"date":"2021-03-12T14:54:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=389280"},"modified":"2021-03-12T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:55:18","slug":"google-maps-now-lets-you-draw-missing-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/389280-google-maps-now-lets-you-draw-missing-roads.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps now lets you draw missing roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/maps\/three-new-ways-anyone-can-update-google-maps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Google recently unveiled<\/strong><\/a> three new Google Maps features that make it easier for users to share and locate information.<\/p>\n<p>This stems from the navigation app reaching a new milestone of revising 150 million guides around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The first feature allows users to easily report road changes with a new, intuitive desktop road editing tool.<\/p>\n<p>The editing tool can be used to draw lines to add missing roads, rename them, adjust their direction, and realign or delete inaccurate roads.<\/p>\n<p>Users can also add dates, reasons, and directions if a road is closed.<\/p>\n<p>If a road is missing, users can visit maps.google.com, click on the side menu button, scroll down to \u201cEdit Map&#8221;, and select &#8220;Missing Road&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>To ensure these edits are correct, Google will validate the road updates before publishing them.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Photo-sharing and review update<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The second feature allows users to easily find and share experiences with the help of a new photo-sharing update.<\/p>\n<p>When looking at a location in Google Maps, users can go to the \u201cUpdates\u201d tab to see the most recent images that merchants and others have shared.<\/p>\n<p>To add an update, users can select the \u201cupload a photo update\u201d button, choose photos, write a quick summary, and post.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to supporting businesses, Google Search and Maps want to amplify reviews with a new feature.<\/p>\n<p>This offers Android users the opportunity to participate in a challenge to gather helpful reviews, photos, and updates.<\/p>\n<p>To do so, users can go to the \u201cContribute\u201d tab in Google Maps, join the \u201cLocal Love challenge\u201d and submit ratings, reviews, and validate information to help businesses they have visited.<\/p>\n<p>This feature will initially only be piloted in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The following video shows a quick tutorial of how the new Road Editor feature works on Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2vpgv2-jdAI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/388830-google-stadia-coming-soon-to-xbox.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Stadia coming soon to Xbox<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google recently unveiled three new Google Maps features that make it easier for users to share and locate information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341058,"featured_media":389348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[167,2272,64167],"class_list":["post-389280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-google","tag-google-maps","tag-navigation-apps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389356,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389280\/revisions\/389356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}