Mapping India - one store at a time
Livemint: Google has launched a pilot project in Hyderabad that allows individuals to post precise location details of restaurants and shopping centres online on Google maps. Individuals take photographs of the location, provide the coordinates and upload on an Internet site for the map.
The result: a city map with hundreds of marker-flags. On Google Earth, the parent application for Google Maps, users just need to glide a mouse cursor over a flag and up pop details of the place. Tens of restaurants, clubs, pizzerias, playgrounds, gardens, bus stops, cinema theatres, colleges, schools, petrol stations, even small temples and chapels are identified on the maps.
Google already has something like this for the US.
Will this throw up further security concerns?