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Thursday, 22 April 2010

Google Maps for Africa gets better - Driving Directions launched!

Posted on 04:25 by Unknown
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We’ve often been asked why we don’t have driving directions on Google Maps in Africa like we do elsewhere in the world. Well, the wait is over - we’ve recently launched driving directions for maps in Africa! So the next time you are in Ghana driving from Kotoka International Airport to Hotel Novotel in Victoria Borg, Accra or you just want to drive from Nairobi to Kampala, visit Google Maps and allow us to help you get to your destination.


We are grateful to our active African online cartographers who have helped make our African maps what they are today, through our community mapping tool Google Map Maker. Try out the driving directions today. If anything is amiss, you can correct it in Google Map Maker.

The addition of this feature is the latest in a series of launches which included local domains for most of the African countries and is testimony to our focus on improving geographic content in Africa.

Posted by Ravi Yadavilli, Geo Content Operations, and Jacqueline Rajuai, Geo Specialist - Google Kenya

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Google Maps progresse en Afrique avec le lancement des itinéraires !

On nous a souvent demandé pourquoi nous ne donnions pas d’itinéraires sur Google Maps en Afrique, comme nous le faisons ailleurs dans le monde. C’est désormais chose faite ! La prochaine fois que vous serez au Ghana et que vous voudrez vous rendre de l’aéroport international de Kotoka à l’hôtel Novotel de Victoria Borg à Accra ou de Nairobi à Kampala, visitez Google Maps et nous vous aiderons à atteindre votre destination.

Nous remercions nos « cartographes » africains en ligne qui se sont montrés très actifs. A l’aide de Google Map Maker, l’outil qui permet aux internautes de contribuer à l’élaboration des cartes, ils nous ont permis de faire de nos cartes ce qu'elles sont aujourd'hui. Essayez les itinéraires dès aujourd’hui et, si quelque chose ne va pas, corrigez-le dans Google Map Maker.

Cette nouvelle fonction d’itinéraires est la dernière initiative s’inscrivant dans la série de lancements de domaines Maps pour la plupart des pays africains. Elle témoigne de notre volonté d’améliorer le contenu géographique dans ce continent.

Posté par Ravi Yadavilli, Geo Content Operations, et Jacqueline Rajuai, Geo Specialist - Google Kenya
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