Google Maps and User-Created Content
May 28, 2009
WebProNews here published a story that provides some color to the symbiotic relationship between Google the service provider and users who create content. Doug Caverly’s “Google Maps Embraces More user Generated Content” provides a good example of how Google as a platform pops an umbrella over what were separate publishing functions. Mr. Caverly wrote:
Three months ago, Google took a big step by “graduating” data on 16 countries from Google Map Maker to Google Maps. Now, comparatively speaking, the company’s performed a long jump by following suit with another 64 countries and territories. This move means that the maps are transitioning from a smallish, private sort of program into public view. It acts as a big endorsement of user-generated content, since regular users are indeed the source of all the geographic info. And they’ve contributed a whole lot.
The question in my mind is, “When does the next shoe drop?”
Stephen Arnold, May 28, 2009
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