New & active pparticipants call !
TRAC is an acronym for “Thousands roads added campaign” This is an initiative or event organised to draw or create better road network on Google maps worldwide. It’s very unofficial and not affiliated to Google in anyway. Its an idea I developed as a local guide. Like all activities by local guides it’s voluntary. We kick started this TRAC event officially on the 23rd of March 2023. It’s planned to run through till September. Therfore we are in the 3rd month of our campaign. We have achieved our;
At the moment we have about 60 local guides participating. Although some are not fully active yet we have very vibrant and active local guides on the team. It’s been very interesting interacting learning Levelling up etc. There the main aim of this post is for new participants that will be active
Can I join TRAC ?? Yes you can join all local guides are free to join. We are calling for more local guides to participate. Even if you don’t know how to draw roads,please join. We are here to help you learn.Our next target is a very challenging one. We need very active and vibrant mappers. We get alot of motivation working together.
How can I join TRAC ???
- Kindly fill out this
Form - We also kindly request for a screenshot of your profile photo showing the number of roads you have before participating in TRAC
- Username on connect to be able to access the Google maps profile and to follow your progress as we go along and perhaps tag you on our posts on connect as well.
- Geographical location
- There is a link to our telegram group on the form. Feel free to join or not. It’s optional. Nevertheless it’s very interesting interacting closely outside connect.
- Meet-up and group discussions are a possibility for instructions and motivations
- We will plan to publish top 10 highest contributors at the end of the event in September all being well.
Please Note: This is not a competition it’s a simple campaign. It is aimed at creating awareness on drawing roads. It’s also aimed at improving road network on the maps worldwide. There are no gift or medals at the end of the campaign.it’s a voluntary activity like all local guides activities.
Disclaimer This campaign or post about adding roads, is unofficial and it’s my personal initiative to help improve the maps. Note that any information collected will not be used for any other official purpose outside connect forum.
Look forward to active participation and interactions over this. All questions are highly welcome and we are open to improving and editing this campaign for good.
If you are on mobile.here is a post by @LovePathak28
Do you prefer working on a Desktop? here is Draw-Roads-on-desktop-step-by-step-Photos.
Do you want tips or more tutorials on drawing roads? 3000-and-counting-My-tips-for-adding-roads-in-Google-Maps
Lastly the Official link for drawing roads by Google feel free to visit all these links for tips on drawing roads on the maps.
Please note that we have reached our target and the campaign is closed for 2023. (12th Sept 2023)
Happy mapping
Cheers
, the road editing function is not available. In our country there are a lot of problems with roads, while Google does not open this opportunity for users to correct errors, but it itself is in no hurry to correct a large number of errors, of which there are a lot…