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Google and Microsoft Want Your Stuff

Posted: June 24th, 2008, 2:20pm CEST

Tags: google

Sorry about the title, after George Carlin's death they replayed the bit on "a place for your stuff" and it just fit. In recent hours both companies have opened up new ways for people and organizations to share their geographic data and knowledge in Google Maps and Microsoft Virtual Earth.

Google's MapMaker (introduction on LatLong blog, tour) is a tool for those with knowledge of specific countries to "fill in the gaps" where the company does not have data. There's no option for such additions or edits in much of the world.

Microsoft is asking localities to share their aerial imagery via GoVE (no website, but introduced on the Virtual Earth, an Evangelist's Blog). That's not new; the company was thinking about it way back in 2005, but the data was to be kept in the public domain as I noted at the time.
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