Mapping Bangladesh

Afterwards, it started working with a view to uniting all mappers (citizen cartographers) across the country under one community.

Users require a computer, broadband internet, spare time and knowledge of their respective neighborhood to be able to contribute to Google Maps of Bangladesh.

Each Regional Expert Reviewer is hand-picked by the Google team and/or sometimes nominated by existing RERs and Map Maker Country Advocates.

Mapping Bangladesh, by a collaborative effort, added all government healthcare facilities across the country in all 485 sub-districts (locally: Upazila, Bengali: উপজেলা).

Having these major projects succeeded and praised by Google Map Maker communities, the community is now working at a local level on other projects adding business listings, neighborhoods, ferry terminals and routes, roads, ports, rivers and everything that Map Maker interface and policies (see Terms of Service) allows them to add to Google Maps.

The same year in March, Google transferred ownership of Bangladesh mapping to local RERs (Regional Expert Reviewers).

They also completed the entire Sub-District layer of Bangladesh on Google Maps in November the same year.

[35] Following the vision, they have organized 17 more MapUps across the country in Chittagong, Rangpur, Comilla, Kushtia, Khulna and in different public and private universities in Dhaka.