Google Maps is an incredible technology. Built by acquired startups and licensed commercial data, it’s refined, repaired and extended by thousands of everyday people around the world using Google’s Map Maker editing service. Just today a big batch of new citizen contributed roads and landmarks went live in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere.
But what about when there’s a mistake? Let’s say that an address or landmark is wrong on Google Maps and someone, somewhere uses Google Map Maker to fix it. How long does it take to show up in Google Maps – and how long does it take to populate out into all the embedded Google Maps around the world that are powered by the Google Maps API, the most popular API in the world. According to the company this week, it now takes as little as fifteen minutes. Even a market leader like Google Maps has to stay on its toes because there’s a whole lot of competition trying to win the hearts of developers who use maps in apps.
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