Introduction
Interactive Technology (Laptops Only)
Launched in April 2016, the Chiang Mai Buddy mapping project is a community-based initiative to share, document and maintain verified information on all points and subjects of interest to foreign visitors and residents of Chiang Mai.
The technology employed here is interactive, meaning anyone can submit pins directly to any map and offer suggestions for new categories.
Everybody Under One Roof
This initiative provides a collaborative platform to like-minded individuals who assemble and publish information to help and inform others with Google maps and other mapping platforms.
It encourages people with specialized categorical knowledge of the city (i.e. Italian food restaurants) to share their big brains to help complete existing or entirely new map categories.
Best of all, it’s a place for people to share problem-solving victories (i.e. “I just discovered where to buy unsalted pumpkin seeds in bulk – YAY!”). The listings and categories presented are only the beginning and will quickly expand as YOU the people participate (see “The Big Map“).
Navigation
To make navigation, collaboration, and information verification as simple as possible, each section is broken down into separate maps which are presented as a composite on the section home page (i.e. Animal Lovers is broken down into Pet Stores, Vet Clinics, Tigers, Elephants, Zoos, Safari, etc.) which you view individually on the subordinate pages or all together on the “Animal Lovers” main page.
Instead of using one generic pin that makes separate categories indecipherable, custom icons are carefully selected from the Map Icons Collection or hand-crafted for each subject to create the perfect aesthetic for visual navigation in the composite maps. You are welcome to submit a new pin (and colour) when recommending new categories.
2 Ways to Get Involved
Populate Our Maps
Add a listing directly to any map, or use our form to make a suggestion for a new listing and/or category.
Red Dots
All new pins are assigned the red dot identifier which creates the extra step of verifying that it is a properly completed Google map listing. If it’s not, that’s where our Chiang Mai Buddy Mapping Partner’s step in.
Become a Chiang Mai Buddy Mapping Partner
Many local Thai business owners lack the technology, language skills, or know-how to create a proper Google+ business profile, then claim and manage their own Google map listing.
Complicating matters, many travellers who register Google Map pins dropped on the fly fail to properly complete the “Add a Place” details (phone number, hours of operation, website, photos, etc.), information that would otherwise greatly benefit both business owners and potential customers.
The result is a serious void of Google map listings and/or poor quality information for travellers visiting or living in Chiang Mai.
To remedy this, Chiang Mai Buddy is actively seeking “Chiang Mai Buddy Mapping Partners” to take the verified information here not listed on Google and engage the wonderful Chiang Mai business community to help create proper 3rd party Google Map listings using best practices.
It all starts by registering as an official Google Local Guide to earn benefits, and joining our Chiang Mai Buddy Mapping Project FaceBook community to help put all the incredible places and people of Chiang Mai on the map.
Garbage in = Garbage Can
The quality of the submissions we accept, however, is of utmost importance but more on that later.
How To Suggest a New Map Listing or Category
How to Become a Chiang Mai Buddy Mapping Partner
How to Make a Proper Google Map Listing
Introduction
Interactive Technology
Launched in April 2016, the Chiang Mai Buddy mapping project is a community-based initiative to share, document and maintain verified information on all points and subjects of interest to foreign visitors and residents of Chiang Mai.
The technology employed here is interactive, meaning anyone can submit pins directly to any map and offer suggestions for new categories.
Everybody Under One Roof
This initiative provides a collaborative platform to like-minded individuals who assemble and publish information using Google maps and other mapping platforms to help others.
It also encourages people with specialized categorical knowledge of the city (i.e. Italian food restaurants) to help complete existing or entirely new map categories.
Lastly, but most exciting, it’s also a place for people to share problem-solving victories (i.e. “I just discovered where to buy unsalted pumpkin seeds in bulk”). The listings and categories presented here will therefore quickly expand as YOU the people participate (see “The Big Map“).
Navigation
To make navigation, collaboration, and information verification as simple as possible, each section is broken down into separate maps which are presented as a composite on the section home page (i.e. Animal Lovers is broken down into Pet Stores, Vet Clinics, Tigers, Elephants, Zoos, Safari, etc.) which you view individually on the subordinate pages or all together on the “Animal Lovers” main page.
Instead of using one generic pin that makes separate categories indecipherable, custom icons are carefully selected from the Map Icons Collection or hand-crafted for each subject to create the perfect aesthetic for visual navigation in the composite maps. You are welcome to submit a new pin (and colour) when recommending new categories.
2 Ways to Get Involved
Populate Our Maps
Add a listing directly to any map, or use our form to make a suggestion for a new listing and/or category.
Become a Chiang Mai Buddy Mapping Partner
Many local Thai business owners lack the technology, language skills, or know-how to create a proper Google+ business profile, then claim and manage their own Google map listing.
Complicating matters, many travellers who register Google Map pins dropped on the fly fail to properly complete the “Add a Place” details (phone number, hours of operation, website, photos, etc.), information that would otherwise greatly benefit both business owners and potential customers.
The result is a serious void of Google map listings and/or poor quality information for travellers visiting or living in Chiang Mai.
To remedy this, Chiang Mai Buddy is actively seeking “Chiang Mai Buddy Mapping Partners” to take the verified information here not listed on Google and engage the wonderful Chiang Mai business community to help create proper 3rd party Google Map listings using best practices.
It all starts by registering as an official Google Local Guide to earn benefits, and joining our Chiang Mai Buddy Mapping Project FaceBook community to help put all the incredible places and people of Chiang Mai on the map.
Garbage in = Garbage Can
The quality of the submissions we accept, however, is of utmost importance but more on that later.
How To Suggest a New Map Listing or Category
How to Become a Chiang Mai Buddy Mapping Partner
How to Make a Proper Google Map Listing
- Axis Mundi
- Wildlife Gadget Man
- Missouri Health
- WIGO
- Heron Yacht Charters
- Special Camps for Special Kids
- Aviation Crash Map
- Hydromax USA
- Foire Aux Vins
- Live Ebola Map
- Metstat Precipitation Analysis
- Where is CygnusIII now?
Quality of Information
High standards
Why
Our Mission
“Serving the Chiang Mai Business Community”
How
Custom Icons
Mandatory Elements
How to Make a Proper Google Maps Listing
One of the most difficult
Here’s how it works. Garbage in = garbage in the garbage. Information has to be PERFECT. Every little polishing touch is what it’s all about. We got all the time in the world to wait for the right mapFREAKS. FREAKS I say.
Message from the new owners
This website has been painstakingly assembled with total love â la “Steve Jobs” so it’s beautiful inside and out. I have made a billion websites for a trillion clients and nothing have I ever made was so fun and enjoyable and MINE.
We’re understaffed
All systems are NEW.
We don’t want you all coming here.
We don’t even want to speak with you.
Just learn our processes and go to BITCH LIKE HELL for provide feedback on how we can improve and streamline our services.
We invite you to contribute to the Chiang Mai Buddy mapping project.
Too many decentralised information sources
Send them to us
Become a mapping partner
- Shopping Centres
Government Offices
- Immigration Office
- License Bureau
- Police Stations
- Post Offices
Health Care
- Hospitals
- Physiotherapy
- Therapeutic Massage
- Dentist
- Dental Surgeon
- Gynaecologists
- Hypnotherapists
- Eye Specialists
Animals
- Pet Stores + Veterinary Clinics
- Zoo, Safari, Elephant + Tiger
Physical Fitness
- Gyms + Fitness Centres
- Yoga
Sports + Recreation
- Table Tennis
- Shopping Centres
- Golf
- Whitewater Rafting
- Zip Lines
Nomad
- Coffee + Wifi
- Shared Work Spaces
Food Lovers
- Major Grocery Stores
Museums
- Insect