Hey Andrew, The word "vegetation" is right because because there are no mangroves on this island. Mangroves are endangered and marking mangroves on google maps can lead to problems offline where people use it for reference.
I have done some investigation over this issue and I have confirmed the source of this change. Someone named kevin has made this feature from google map maker which then reflected onto google maps API maps. I have confirmed this because I have been seeing this space for the past 2 years. "Mangroves" is a change directed from map maker. I have already voted for a name change and it has been changed to vegetation by a google moderator. What Im asking is, when will this change reflect on maps by mapsAPI ? this question can apply to many other situations. What if the name of the street I live in has changed and I vote for a change on map maker but mapsAPI still has the old info. My question is very specific, How do i affect the changes made on map maker to google's api servers ? who do i contact to get this change. Clearly, when someone marked it as "mangroves" the change got affected into maps API. I just need the same routine again. Regards, rohit On Jun 16, 5:38 pm, Andrew Leach <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 16, 8:12 am, "rohit.manohar" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > There is a difference, the one on google maps says "Vegetation" while > > the one on static maps says "Mangroves". This is a big difference for > > my project, > > Which do you think is right? > > Is "mangroves" right for the type of vegetation, or not? If there are > mangroves there, what reason is there to change it? (If it's not > mangroves, then one might wonder how Google got that in the first > place) > > > We recently used mapmaker to vote for this change but it > > has not reflected with static maps. How do we enforce google to make > > the change on static maps > > You can't force Google to do anything. You can ask; but the map data > comes from a number of sources, not just Mapmaker, and the tiles are > only updated periodically. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API V2" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-maps-api?hl=en.
