2023 TRAC Week 3 Report-1,285 Roads

Hello Local guides,

We are in the 3rd week of our prestigious and exceptional 2023-TRAC campaign drawing roads on the maps. We want to say a big thank you to all our 28 participants especially to @LovePathak28 the co-host who are actively working to see that we achieve our set target of 3,000 roads and to improve the maps. We have a long way to go yet, so we are still inviting local guides to come join us. You don’t need to be a level 9 or 10 to be part of this it is open to all local guides at every level and all countries. These roads are to be drawn anywhere on the maps that are in need of drawing roads. You are not obliged to draw a thousand roads either. In participating on our 2023-TRAC event. . We are collectively working together to improve the road network on the maps worldwide.

  • QUE: Are roads drawn on the Road mappers accepted as part of this Campaign?

  • Answer: The answer is NO !!! Drawing roads on Road mappers is totally different from drawing roads on the maps. On this campaign we are either drawing roads on Mobile on the maps or using the new desktop road editor. Note that the approval rate could be slow and low,yet we will not give up. We will plan to achieve our target.

  • QUE: I don’t know how to draw roads on the maps,infact I have never drawn any roads on the maps before now what do I do?

  • Answer: We have a telegram group where we interact daily. We have video,instructions etc for learners on drawing roads. Meanwhile we have some very self explanatory posts here on connect. Please endeavor to look them up,the links are at the end of this post.

  • QUE: What do I do to participate in TRAC 2023 event ?

  • Answer: Please fill the form to be part of this event. Feel free to PM or comment below for more details about participating etc.

Disclaimer

This event is not a competition. It is not in anyway affiliated to Google or any other organisation. It’s my personal initiative and it’s aim is to improve the maps. To create awareness to deaw roads among local guides. At the end of this event,there are no badges or gifts to be given. Just the prestige of the fact that we have all worked together to make the maps better.

Achievement.

In about 3 weeks we have drawn 1,285 roads worldwide. We have some 2 vibrant and active CM on our team. We also have 6 countries working together on this campaign. We hace local guides from Level 5 to 10 participating in this event. In participating in this event,we are also getting feedback to help the Google team in one way or another. Congratulations to all the participants. Below is our score sheet. This is not geared at forcing anyone who hasn’t drawn a road yet and are on our team. It is rather geared at inspiring all local guides on the forum. You can do it. We can do it together !!!

Post of interest for drawing roads

Officially here is the The link provided by Google

then other posts like How-to-get-rid-of-that-annoying-0-for-Roads-added

Lastly Roads-in-Google-Maps-2000-roads-later

Compliments.and criticisms are all welcome as long as it will help achieve our main target. Please feel to ask us any questions regarding this event.

N.B kindly have in mind as you draw the roads that quality over quality in all contributions on the maps. @JustJake our fellow local guide and guiding star reminded us Here on this link about quality over quantity in drawing roads and all other contributions on the maps. In drawing the roads please ensure they are well drawn.

Happy mapping

Happy guiding

Cheers

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@SholaIB Congratulations.

Hello @SanjayBDLG

Thank you for nice comments. You are invited to join us too. Help us make the maps better.

Cheers

Dear all,

my partecipation at the TRAC proposed by @SholaIB saw me “hunting” in Marocco and Iran mainly. Really fast growing region where you can find entire village / city almost not mapped; like in the pic below.

My concern is that, as of today, I have only 158 added roads, and way over 600 still pending. I’m a little afraid because I saw that the approval process is becoming slower and, the few approved in this two days (6), are referring to the new discovery roads. The pic you saw is considered as 1 road or more roads? At this point I’m not able to understand how the system is counting them.

Anyway, I’m proud (if approved) to have mapped so many new places.

cross finger and keep hunting.

Take care

Marco

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