Turn Google Maps Into Your Own Personal Geo-Wiki
The new terrain view isn’t the only recent addition to Google Maps, there’s also a new collaboration feature in the My Maps tool which allows you to share and collaborate with others on your custom maps.
The new My Maps feature essentially turns your maps into sharable wiki-maps, opening up an impressive range of possibilities.
For instance, say you’re a hiking enthusiast and you’ve created maps with all your favorite trails in the Smoky Mountains. Using the new wiki-style collaboration tools, other trekkers can add to your map, outlining their favorite hikes and building a collaborative map of the best trails in the Smoky Mountains.
To enable the new features just login to your account and head to your My Maps section. You’ll then notice a new “Collaborate” link which allows you to add the the email addresses of the contributors you want to invite. Once your fellow enthusiasts get the e-mail invite they’ll have link to your maps and they can edit and elaborate on it.
There’s also an option to allow anyone to edit your maps, should you decide you want the whole world in on the collaboration.
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