{"id":32441,"date":"2013-02-08T00:12:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T18:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=32441"},"modified":"2013-09-21T20:07:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T14:37:39","slug":"google-maps-mapathon-india-mapping-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2013\/02\/google-maps-mapathon-india-mapping-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Improve Google India Maps and Win Prizes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps is launching <a href=\"http:\/\/g.co\/mapindia2013\" target=\"_blank\">Mapathon 2013<\/a>, India\u2019s first mapping contest to improve local Google maps in India by encouraging Indians to participate and improve maps while promising amazing prizes to those who perform the most edits.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32442\" alt=\"google mapping contest\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-mapping-contest.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-mapping-contest.png 480w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-mapping-contest-150x76.png 150w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/google-mapping-contest-300x153.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>India Mapping Contest<\/h2>\n<p>This is a wonderful effort to make Google maps better, especially since local mapping details are particularly lacking in India. The Google Mapathon 2013 competition will run from February 12 to March 25, 2013 and is available for people residing in India only.<\/p>\n<p>Start using the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.in\/mapmaker\" rel=\"noopener\">Google Map Maker<\/a>\u00a0to edit Google maps and add local information like restaurants, fire stations, petrol pumps, roads, places etc. and save \u00a0&#8211; Google will verify your edit and it will be added to Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/n8XVk1hWWok\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qyXTvj-Mm9k?list=PL6201A3407AEFF375\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So who wins the <strong>prizes<\/strong>? Top 1000 contestants with most number of published edits. Simple. Top prizes are 10 Samsung Galaxy Note 800 Android Tablets, 40 Samsung Galaxy SII Android Phones, 50 Flipkart gift coupons worth Rs. 5000 and all 1000 winners get Google Mapathon 2013 t-shirts. Get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps is launching Mapathon 2013, India\u2019s first mapping contest to improve local Google maps in India by encouraging Indians&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-32441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}