Here is How You Fix Maps

Gregory Kick left a great comment on my recent entry How Do I Submit a Bug Report for Bad Maps?. Sure enough, NAVTEQ Map Reporter lets you submit updates.

This is the root of the bad data for my house:

Their system is really cool. You zoom in on the address in question, then you simply double-click to add a new marker at the correct location. You can then provide all sorts of data explaining your update, such as a bad or missing street name, an incorrect location, or various other problems.

I uploaded this picture as “supporting data”:

You can also leave your email address to be notified of progress on the update. They claim they provide updated feeds to the various mapping services up to four times per year.

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 18th, 2007 at 8:42 pm and is filed under Technology. You can skip to the end and leave a response.