Google Maps: Move the Marker… Yep, That's the Place

"Wait a minute, I'm in the middle of frickin' nowhere! But my GPS and My Maps tell me I'm in the right place…" Ever happened to you? Not likely, but in case, you've got to agree it's damn frustrating to follow the map by the pixel and still end up in the wrong place.

The Google Lat Long Blog announced that an option was added so that anyone can move the marker of something, be it an address or a business if it is not in the right place. You wouldn't want to be following directions to a party and find yourself in the street and looking at a 1000 apartment building on the right and still searching for the right place and yet be standing exactly where the marker shows you should be, would you?

Like I said, anyone can use the marker and move it to the very doorstep of the place in question. What about the "evildoers" who would move some just for the kicks they get out of it? "Fear not, we've thought of that. Whenever you find a recently-moved address or business, you'll see a "Show original" link you can click to see where the marker was originally. If it's in the wrong place, just move it to the right one," says Seth LaForge, a software engineer at Google Maps. If the changing of the marker is more than 200 meters, however, the change will have to be reviewed before going live.

The only requirement for using this option is a Google Account and the area where the "move a marker/win a lollipop" thingy can be done includes the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The lollipop was a joke, there's no reward for it other than your own personal soul fulfillment feeling you might experience. Or you might not, it's actually up to you.