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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

now, that is what i call useful user feedback

Wired reports that Google is asking U.S residents to help complete & correct its Maps. Google MapMaker is the tool for this job, and as an Israeli, all I can say is that we impatiently wait for our turn at correcting some of the online maps of the Holy-land.

When we talk about user input, the modern web and the roles of users in generating input, Mapmaker is a great example of the the way mass feedback can improve shared knowledge.

Maps, in a way, are a demonstration of the usefulness and elegance in which knowledge can be summed up in a universally clear manner. If only we could find more tools like maps, to handle the floods of data the information revolution has created.... 

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