Comments on: Massive Africa Update on Google Maps

By: Quora

Quora — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:39:47 +0000

Why are location services not very popular in
Africa?… Africa is still being mapped in higher
resolution
(http://whiteafrican.com/2009/05/21/massive-africa-update-on-google-maps/).
I think it will be some time before we have place-based data since
so many businesses are informal and unregistered. And of
th…

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By: Relebohile

Relebohile — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:47:01 +0000

Wow, for a minute there I thought this site would entail white people feeding negative information about Africa. it’ll be cool though if we shared what is really happening in Africa

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:31:20 +0000

Regarding the Mogadishu map: I was a Marine in Mogadishu in 1993. There are / were no signs or street names. The main roads had names (Afgoy, Medina, 21 October and Dead Cow Road that I can recall) but this was just passed along. No signs or makers. If any of the other roads had names, I imagine they have been lost or forgotten by now.

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By: Jean-Marc Liotier

Jean-Marc Liotier — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:01:46 +0000

The reason for streets with no names in Mogadishu may be that Google used satellite pictures as a source for assisted map drawing. Does the Google Street View vehicle has an armored version ?

By: hyrcan

hyrcan — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:11:43 +0000

I still don’t know why Google wouldn’t setup a way for us to give them the data. While looking at the map of Arusha, I’d been happy to draw little lines over the visible roads that weren’t mapped. OR correct the two roads they had mapped wrong. They allow it for correcting where a street address is in the states… but not the street.