To boldly go where GoogleMaps hasn’t gone before

That’s your mission should you choose to accept it. If you always fancied yourself as the explorer type, here’s your opportunity to let that spring forth. Today Google put out a call for volunteers to help them fill in the blanks for uncharted terrains in GoogleMaps.

Interested? Then toddle on over to the Google Map Maker. Anyone can help by adding additional features like roads, businesses, points of interest and lakes to the maps. Details in Google’s LatLong blog revealed, “You will be able to trace many of these features using satellite images; as you trace, maps are immediately updated.”

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