As Local Guides, we’re always up for a challenge whether it’s a photo walk, supporting small businesses, promoting women-led enterprises, or highlighting LGBTQ+ and accessible places. All of these efforts help make Google Maps better for everyone. But there’s one feature many of us forget about is THE ROADS.
Thanks to @SholaIB and the amazing TRAC CAMPAIGN, over 100 Local Guides have started actively adding roads. But only a handful of local guides take the hard work to correct the existing ones and there’s a lot of area’s to contribute and improve
Now, here why I do add and correct roads
Points: 15 points for each approved new road, and 5 points for every correction. ( That’s a big reason why I started adding roads)
Edit from Anywhere: You don’t even need to step outside your bed. Many of us (including me ) are introverts or prefer to contribute quietly from home, road editing is perfect for that.
Better Navigation: Your corrections help people reach their destinations safely and efficiently. A single correction might save someone from taking a wrong turn or hitting a dead end.
Fix Real Problems: in last few days Many Local Guides have been flagging issues like misaligned routes, fake roads, and incorrect dead-ends. These might seem small, but they can lead to serious delays or confusion on the road.
Believe me , It’s Easier Than You Think.. I do it every day ..
Google Maps provides amazing tools to help you add and correct roads. Look for options like “Report a problem” or “Add a missing road” within the app or desktop version.
Thank you for writing this post and for tagging me as well. My greatest achievement as a local guide is TRAC. Thanks to local guides like you who are particularly and making the campaign lively.
Now the exact same idea I have in mind is what you wrote about. Other activities on Google maps are popular but adding roads isn’t until TRAC came. There are many factors responsible for this;
Approvals/Rejection rate is not very stable as you know yourself
Adding or editing a road is the most technical activity on Google maps.
It’s quite delicate.
Hunting for roads can take time
It’s not as fancy as a beautiful front view or dish etc.
Hopefully others will view your post and roads will be getting more and more popular.
Yes Captian @Shola_IB
funfact about some of famous Road of India
Grand Trunk Road
One of the oldest and longest roads in India.( may be south Asia’s longest road in past time)
Agra-Bombay Highway
Which used to connect the city of Agra in Uttar Pradesh to Mumbai, the capital of Maharashtra but now it has become a part of many new national highways.
Thanks.
Thank you for this important statement, @SarathUpendran. Thanks to TRAC, I have found many areas I would have never looked at on the Map. I can see the nightmare that navigation would be in many of these places.
It could be from Locals desperate to get their roads added, but only have mobile. It could be that satellite images have updated, leaving the existing road network outdated. Perhaps, just some pranksters drawing squiggly lines on the map for points. Who knows, but I have an entire list of areas that I painstakingly work to clean up.
As @SholaIB mentioned, the approval rate is low for fixes. When I last measured, I would get around 20%. But time and persistence can yield great results.
There has always been an issue with satellite imagery and a discrepancy in the alignment of the roads.
Very often I don’t meddle much with such issues becaue they are beyond me. Simple addind of roads is what I do more and that’s what TRAC basically is about.
@JustJake it is practically impossible to ignore a road that should be added for fixing a road that’s not properly aligned.
Moreso how would you account for fixed roads separately from added roads? Million dollars question isn’t it ??
The approval of edits related to roads are unpredictable and the time it takes to find roads to edit is very long … It takes me hours everyday…
But if we look at it from local guides perspective, we are scattered all over the world… So even if we take a small intiative to correcting roads in our own home town or city … It will go long way and make a big change too
@JustJake you are so right… It will take very long time and patience… But most don’t have both … I would be happy if am able to put the idea of editing roads in the thoughts of at least a local guide
I too have a question about that… If we make a road as incorrectly drawn … Will its point gets added to our contribution in “roads” or in the “edits” section
Brilliant post, @SarathUpendran! Your insights on road editing truly highlight an underrated yet powerful way Local Guides can make a difference.
A huge thank you to TRACE 2025 for igniting this movement! Before joining the campaign, I had only 7 roads added—but now, that number has grown to an incredible 532!
These contributions go beyond map accuracy—they support SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure by strengthening digital connectivity, and SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities by making navigation more inclusive, efficient, and reliable.
Let’s keep paving the way—digitally and sustainably!
I add roads almost every day @SarathUpendran, but I dont usually fix errors. We could get an opinion from the road guru @ErmesT but I thought he may have suggested to avoid corrections.
@JustJake@ShailendraOjha I share your frustration about the approval process. Many days pass without any notifications from Google, then when they finally come through, I get about a 28% success rate. That means 28 roads for every 100, or 280 per 1000, but I dont have time to draw thousandsof roads quickly.
Nevertheless, let us continue in this joint effort in fixing the world together.
Last year I joined TRAC with 4 roads and ended at 427. I continued throughout the year since then, and started this year’s campaign with 1481, ending at 1773. Today I’m at 1812 roads added. Thanks to @SholaIB for these campaigns to keep us focused for short periods each year.
Points: 15 points for each approved new road, and 5 points for every correction. ( That’s a big reason why I started adding roads)
Edit from Anywhere: You don’t even need to step outside your bed. Many of us (including me 
) are introverts or prefer to contribute quietly from home, road editing is perfect for that.
Better Navigation: Your corrections help people reach their destinations safely and efficiently. A single correction might save someone from taking a wrong turn or hitting a dead end.
Fix Real Problems: in last few days Many Local Guides have been flagging issues like misaligned routes, fake roads, and incorrect dead-ends. These might seem small, but they can lead to serious delays or confusion on the road...
Your insights on road editing truly highlight an underrated yet powerful way Local Guides can make a difference.
Before joining the campaign, I had only 7 roads added—but now, that number has grown to an incredible 532! 
