New Lagos Map On Google Earth

Hi Guys,

Goole Earth has updated the lagos area map with a new satellite image/photograph, you can see the third mainland bridge snaking through lagos and the new image clearly shows an area north of the airport.

Guys, this is so exciting, if you have broadband access why don't we have a crack at creating nametags for known streets/areas in Lagos.

I was able to make out Allen Avenue in Ikeja, Ikorodu Road and even Oshodi!

Guys, if you are lagos based and have a gps device let me have you co-ordinates to plot on the map.

That's awesome!

If you want to see even better detail, go to Otta, 

more maps on www.ceaser-web.com

For address search, post code search, points of interest search, find my nearest search, find a map etc.

Yemmy.

try www.ceaser-web.com

location of what in degrees?

the beginning or the middle or the end? a location is a point, third mainland bridge is not a point, it is a long set of points - so be specific.

new streets appear almost everyday in Lagos, they are going to have a herculean task maintaining those maps

I have seen the new Lagos satellite imagery on Google Earth and i must confess it is very impressive. However i could not help but note the absence of Lagos local content in it. What i mean is that as beautiful and impressive as the satellite imageries appear, Google Earth lacks the basic search and find capability for the Nigeria market. This means that there is no Nigerian intelligence in it either implicitly or explicitly. The images are sharp but not as sharp as London’s. The resolution is fantastic at 2.5m or there about. You however cannot search for Apapa, Isolo, Ketu or AJ city. Have you tried searching for Apapa-Oworonshoki Exp Rd on it? Dont bother its not there. Most importantly you can't search for the location of any business on it, e.g can you search for Mr Biggs Fadeyi on it? So what you have on Google Earth about Lagos or indeed any other place in Nigeria is a glorified picture albeit a useful picture –at least I could make out my street because I know what to look for. The reason why you can't find any of these on it is because it does not have any intelligent vector data about Nigeria.

Google has realised the lack of local content in places outside North America and Europe, perhaps this explains why they are investing on “Crowd Sourcing” in India, where individuals upload tracks from their GPS unto a secured Google server. This way, they are using the locals to map their own country. 

Now that Microsoft had finally bought over Multimap and Tom Tom had acquired TeleAtlast, perhaps they will start looking at the rest of the world. Multimap had showed its interest in the African market by buying over Georigin of South Africa. All these acquisitions will shift attention to providing local content for the rest of the world.

In the interim, Nigerian GIS solutions and Location based providers like Spatial Technologies Ltd, MapNTL.com, etc provide local content by building huge geospatial database of Nigeria with a lot of Nigerian flavour. MapNTL.com is a web-based interactive map portal developed by Nigerians living in UK for Nigerians. It is more intelligent than Google Earth at least in its coverage of the Nigerian landscape. Oh yes it still does not have fancy satellite pictures like Google Earth, but it has the capability to search and find within Lagos any street, bank, hotel, restaurant, etc. It provides online navigational route to anywhere in Lagos and even to other parts of Nigeria. See below the map of a route generated from Mushin to Ikotun Egbe, try generating the same driving direction on Google Earth

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