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Post by 🎄🌰🌰Yoosting on an open 🔥🎄 on May 30, 2017 10:05:52 GMT 9
Thanks a lot guys! I haven't done a lot yet, just a few to check out how it works so I can propose it as a new JIGYO for the KA, but your verification is very helpful! The BUMKASENTAA's proper English name is ' Koriyama City Cultural Center', which I proposed, but it's not yet verified. It's where most of the city's big concerts are, and it's marketed everywhere as 'Koriyama City Cultural Center', so the fact that it doesn't come up in Maps like that is pretty problematic. |
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Post by marudate on May 30, 2017 10:43:20 GMT 9
Another strategy is to have multiple people make the same edit- I just made those two edits myself, too. So if mine get accepted and yours don't, it will show up as "rejected" for you but still have the right name, so that's a victory ; ) By the way, the more of these you do the more get accepted quickly, so it won't be this annoying going forward. Also, I got one I could use help with. Not my town but goo.gl/maps/xMjsFx6xpsr English should be Cape Kamiwarizaki 神割崎 |
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Post by 🎄🌰🌰Yoosting on an open 🔥🎄 on May 30, 2017 14:54:31 GMT 9
Another strategy is to have multiple people make the same edit- I just made those two edits myself, too. So if mine get accepted and yours don't, it will show up as "rejected" for you but still have the right name, so that's a victory ; ) By the way, the more of these you do the more get accepted quickly, so it won't be this annoying going forward. Also, I got one I could use help with. Not my town but goo.gl/maps/xMjsFx6xpsr English should be Cape Kamiwarizaki 神割崎 We'll see how it goes; as of this moment it's still pending. Also verified the Cape Kamiwarizaki. Hope it helps! |
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Post by CaptainSeery on May 30, 2017 16:39:18 GMT 9
I started doing some of this in my area. Thanks for the idea! I'll try to get you guys to verify some of them for me too, but in the meantime I suggested Cape Kamiwarizaki too.
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Post by 🎄🌰🌰Yoosting on an open 🔥🎄 on Jun 1, 2017 10:17:33 GMT 9
Just talked about the issue with some people in the office. Right now we're working on a multilingual database of all of the city's facilities. Until that's done, working on Google Maps-editing as JIGYO will be MUZUKASII because of SEKININ. Ergo, I will just work on it on my own accord on my personal account, cause this is not gonna go anywhere fast.
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Post by marudate on Jun 1, 2017 10:23:20 GMT 9
That is great you are making a database. I made a simple one as we created multilingual pamphlets and then aligned Google Maps with that. As we translate more business names for various projects I make them consistent on Google Maps at the same time.
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Post by 🎄🌰🌰Yoosting on an open 🔥🎄 on Jun 1, 2017 10:54:03 GMT 9
Interesting; for the multilingual pamphlets, did you use certain translation guidelines? That's the thing holding the project back so far; there's a lot of things to consider when deciding on an English name/title in terms of romanization/conventions, and as it often goes they're really big on being able to justify every decision.
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Post by marudate on Jun 1, 2017 11:51:11 GMT 9
Well, I used the national tourism guidelines which outlines which romaji are acceptable (no jya, sya, ou, etc.) and provides some ideas for consistency. We internally decided here to follow their guidance to add "bridge, temple," etc. to place names (i.e. Takahashi Bridge), which is preferred, and to forgo hyphens (Sensoji Temple vs Senso-ji). We weren't that far off from this without guidelines- it was just inconsistent and the prefecture and town used different conventions. It wasn't very hard to do this for all the major tourism facilities we have to start with (i.e. places foreigners actually go). The most important thing isn't the name it's consistency. The street sign has got to match the pamphlet, our webpage and Google Maps or we are going to cause problems for tourists. Private businesses are trickier as it depends on what they want to be called. As part of our English consulting service (me), helping them with an English/romaji name if they don't have one and fixing the maps entry is one of the first things I do no matter what they ask for help with : ) |
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Post by hohoEMIsen on Jun 2, 2017 20:05:09 GMT 9
Another strategy is to have multiple people make the same edit- I just made those two edits myself, too. So if mine get accepted and yours don't, it will show up as "rejected" for you but still have the right name, so that's a victory ; ) By the way, the more of these you do the more get accepted quickly, so it won't be this annoying going forward. Also, I got one I could use help with. Not my town but goo.gl/maps/xMjsFx6xpsr English should be Cape Kamiwarizaki 神割崎 Sorry, could you elaborate more on how I should go around verifying this? I can't seem to find the verify button. |
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Post by marudate on Jun 5, 2017 8:48:52 GMT 9
Google has peer review of edits, so if you become a guide, in the map application on your phone or computer you can go to "Your Contributions" and then "Check the facts" to verify information that others submit. Your contributions is on the menu tab below your places and your timeline. On the app or website, after you click on "your contributions", click "Check the facts" and move the map over to where you want to help confirm edits.
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Post by hohoEMIsen on Jun 5, 2017 11:00:10 GMT 9
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Post by marudate on Jun 13, 2017 8:38:30 GMT 9
I got a notice:
Progress! How's the stadium coming?
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Post by 🎄🌰🌰Yoosting on an open 🔥🎄 on Jun 13, 2017 8:56:33 GMT 9
OKAGESAMADE the Cultural Center was approved. Not much progress for the rest of my edits, but this week I want to just go ahead and start doing a lot of edits, cause my office doesn't want to make a JIGYO out of it at this point, but is fine with me doing it on my own accord during office hours.
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Post by marudate on Jun 13, 2017 9:21:05 GMT 9
I'm glad you can work on it. Just blast away with edits! Let us know when you're done and we can look over them and approve them, too. The more you do the more Google will accept them, I've found.
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Post by Hokuto on Jun 13, 2017 16:03:18 GMT 9
so i just did a few for my city and they were approved within minutes (these were my first ones too)
idk why they're makin' you wait so long
(i also went and approved the ones y'all said to!)
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Post by marudate on Jun 13, 2017 16:06:46 GMT 9
One must appease the whims of the Google gods. They work in mysterious ways.
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Post by CaptainSeery on Jun 14, 2017 9:03:43 GMT 9
When I did a bunch, I noticed a few got accepted immediately, but they were all really simple ones. Any more complicated changes seemed to take longer, and many of those still haven't been accepted. The ones accepted immediately were things like changing Minamatadaiichi Elementary School to Minamata Daiichi.
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Post by marudate on Jun 14, 2017 9:24:13 GMT 9
Interesting. I noticed the same thing recently. I tried to help a business owner move her business to a new town and changed the name, address, category, website and more. We waited a day and nothing happened. I then just moved the address. Then the name, then the website. Doing it piecemeal got the important parts fixed immediately.
Some changes seem to flag review.
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Post by marudate on Jun 14, 2017 10:08:21 GMT 9
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Post by Hokuto on Jun 14, 2017 10:24:32 GMT 9
WUT i can get rewards for doing this?!? guess who def just found a new project for work hahahaa |
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Post by marudate on Jun 14, 2017 10:37:05 GMT 9
WUT i can get rewards for doing this?!? guess who def just found a new project for work hahahaa Thank you for your sacrifice. |
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Post by marudate on Jun 14, 2017 14:22:54 GMT 9
I just discovered Dude Ranch is a category on Google Maps. A few hits for Texas and a bunch around Japan. Odd.
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Post by marudate on Jun 14, 2017 15:06:52 GMT 9
They literally recalibrated the points this afternoon. I rocketed along to level 6 from 4.
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Post by frooperyfroop on Sept 13, 2017 14:03:37 GMT 9
Since I'm a n00b when it comes to editing Google Maps, this may be a potentially silly question, but is there a difference between adding a label to a building vs. suggesting an edit? Is a label something that's seen only by myself (eg. I can label something as "My favourite conbini" and rest assured that I'm not telling the whole world where my favourite conbini is), whereas if I edit the name of a building and it gets approved, the whole world can see that edit?
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Post by Mumblesnore on Sept 13, 2017 14:30:20 GMT 9
Since I'm a n00b when it comes to editing Google Maps, this may be a potentially silly question, but is there a difference between adding a label to a building vs. suggesting an edit? Is a label something that's seen only by myself (eg. I can label something as "My favourite conbini" and rest assured that I'm not telling the whole world where my favourite conbini is), whereas if I edit the name of a building and it gets approved, the whole world can see that edit? It seems like they're public. |
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Post by Mumblesnore on Sept 13, 2017 14:35:04 GMT 9
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Post by frooperyfroop on Sept 13, 2017 14:58:07 GMT 9
I tried googling this but I can't find any satisfactory answers.  Also, I really hope labels are private because I literally did label some place something similar to "my favourite conbini" recently and it's going to be super embarrassing if it turns out to be public. hue. (I'll probably delete the label later if I can't get an answer to my question just to be safe, but I'm hoping it does turn out that labels can be private because it would be convenient if I could personalise Google maps just for my own eyes.)
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Post by marudate on May 18, 2018 14:54:38 GMT 9
Place labels you make yourself are private. For businesses where Google has enough info they'll add key features to the business when a user finds it on the map (good for late-night snacks, etc.) |
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Post by starbreeze on Mar 11, 2019 13:51:30 GMT 9
I saw something mentioned on this thread from 2 years ago about getting public transit info on グーグル先生 Maps. I have been (tangentially?) tasked with making the bus system here easier for foreigners to figure out (the current system is not intuitive at all... even to locals) and my first suggestion, of course, was "Why not get that stuff on グーグル先生 maps?" I think at the time they said they were working with them but it probably has more to do with the bus company which has a reach beyond our small town and isn't on グーグル先生 Maps elsewhere, either.
I looked into グーグル先生 Transit to see if I could do anything myself, but of course you have to be the transit operator in order to do anything.
So my workaround for now is creating a "My Maps" with all of the bus stops listed but I feel like just having a map like this is pointless if the bus routes and the navigation sites that direct you how to get from point A and point B are all in Japanese (Jorudan, Navitime, etc.)
I guess I don't really know what I'm asking, but maybe something like:
A. Has anyone had any luck with getting their transit system on グーグル先生 Maps?
B. Is there any other transportation site/software that enables you to program something like a trip planner in which you plug in starting points and destinations and it spits out routes?
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Post by marudate on Mar 11, 2019 16:35:57 GMT 9
A. is not so difficult. I cannot claim responsibility for it but my nearest city got their bus and new subway routes up and most of the intercity carriers have uploaded to グーグル先生 too. If they want any foreign people to use it they really need to do this. Perhaps you could write a memo on this with comparisons of similar routes elsewhere to see if the city could nudge them in this direction in the name of all that is holy (inbound x omotenashi) I did make a page link but you can see it's a far cry from having the info properly embedded within グーグル先生 's system. |
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Also, I really hope labels are private because I literally did label some place something similar to "my favourite conbini" recently and it's going to be super embarrassing if it turns out to be public. hue. (I'll probably delete the label later if I can't get an answer to my question just to be safe, but I'm hoping it does turn out that labels can be private because it would be convenient if I could personalise Google maps just for my own eyes.)
