If you’ve ever used Google maps, especially since they’ve added the satellite view, you’ve probably looked up your house. And chances are very good that the location that came up in the map was close to your house, but not quite there. Well, you can now fix that. Google now allows users to edit locations in their maps, as long as the move is less than 200 yards, the change is instant. I already fixed the location of my house, and I encourage you to do the same. As you may know, we use Google maps for our fleet tracking application and rely on Google’s address to lat/long lookup (technically known as geocoding) for things like setting geofences, so the more accurate their database, the better for us. Unfortunately, we do not seem to get the edited data through their service yet, but I’m sure that will change.

Google put together a clever video about this, check it out:

If you interested in seeing what other people are editing, Google also built a recent edits page that is very cool.