04-13-2017 04:22 PM
@Pea Seems you've had some experience with that. Thanks for sharing. Will check it out.
07-07-2017 02:56 AM
Drinking Water Fountain is at least at the moment a category I'm able to add to the map, I've already added several water fountains that I know of, and every time I see one, I immediately add it, and take a snazzy picture of it, as soon as it gets approved, I add the picture!
07-07-2017 03:08 AM
Can you share some map links here to these features you added
@Opspin wrote:I've already added several water fountains that I know of
07-07-2017 09:46 AM
Sure thing
Drikkevand
Sortedam Dossering 69, 2100 København Ø
https://goo.gl/maps/XHxSNBfNPHr
Drikkevand
Nørrebrogade 253, 2200 København N
https://goo.gl/maps/jd4teUvFrxN2
Dansepladsens vandpost
Øster Allé 60, 2100 København Ø
https://goo.gl/maps/Br9JbA1Zcr72
07-07-2017 02:57 PM - edited 07-07-2017 02:57 PM
@Opspin wrote:
Drikkevand
Sortedam Dossering 69, 2100 København Ø
https://goo.gl/maps/XHxSNBfNPHr
Drikkevand
Nørrebrogade 253, 2200 København N
https://goo.gl/maps/jd4teUvFrxN2
Dansepladsens vandpost
Øster Allé 60, 2100 København Ø
https://goo.gl/maps/Br9JbA1Zcr72
These seem to have descriptive names and probably shouldn't be on the base map (they could be on a custom map https://www.google.com/maps/about/mymaps/)
07-07-2017 03:04 PM
Every single Starbucks has the same name, what's the difference?
I really don't understand why drinking water fountains shouldn't be on google maps, especially when there are a category for them.
City officials who repair and maintain drinking water fountains and toilets etc. could easily make a bulk upload spreadsheet and upload them all to Google Maps, thereby improving their city and helping their customers aka citizens and especially tourists.
07-11-2017 03:08 PM
Google has become a government organization. We're discussing simple feature requests for months! May be the difference between Starbucks and water fountains is that in the former you pay $$$ and there's no financial incentive in mapping the latter.
07-11-2017 03:15 PM
I think there's lots of reasons to map water fountains and public toilets.
If people use Google Maps to find everything because it's the best, then they also use it to find Starbucks, Apple Maps sucks but it's preinstalled on every iPhone, and casual users don't know the difference. I'm happy using whatever map, as log as it shows me what I need. Google is ahead, but maybe not forever.
Microsoft/Live/Bing Maps is a complete joke (at least outside the US) and Nokia Maps as well, Yelp tried to map businesses, but has withdrawn from everywhere except the US. Facebook and Apple are the only real contenders, and Facebook is gaining fast because they've managed to gamify the map editing and correction. It's the same reason google even has a local guides program.
07-11-2017 03:18 PM
I didn't even know that existed, thank you for bringing it to my attention @AmeyP 🙂
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07-11-2017 05:06 PM
As @Pea has noted, these are not features that can be added to the base map. The category exists to be added to other features as a secondary category, which is not something that can currently be done via Google Maps but was available in Map Maker.
Features added to the map need to have a proper name.
The base map has limits on it to keep it quick and free from clutter. It is not a "feature enhancement" to ask to add clutter to the map. You are free to map fountains, but to add features that shouldn't be on the base map should be put on a custom map. Google provides several ways to make custom maps, the most appropriate in this case would likely be Google My Maps. Such maps can be made searchable, which means with good choices of map title and the naming of the map elements then they should show up in Google searches. Such maps can also be called up as a layer over the main map within the Maps app so that people can navigate to and from points on it.
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