Make your geospatial data accessible and useful to everyone
Help keep Google Maps up to date so the world can be accurately searched, explored, and navigated
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Make your data available to Google’s hundreds of millions of users
Easy
Quickly share large volumes of data
Free
Get your data on Google at no cost
Who we partner with
We partner with organizations who have authoritative geospatial data for their region. Authoritative means your organization:
Is trusted by users to know what does and doesn’t exist locally
Has high quality geospatial data
Has the rights to share that data
Example partners include:
Local, regional, and national authorities
Municipalities
Transportation, tourism, and other agencies
State / National mapping agencies
Indigenous and Aboriginal authorities
Housing developers
Healthcare providers, agencies, and NGOs
Organizations using Google’s maps and APIs
Other trusted public, private or non-profit organizations (e.g., universities)
Data types
We accept a range of data types from authoritative partners through our Maps Content Partners portal (sample data types listed below). The comprehensive list of accepted data types and required formatting can be found in our content requirements.
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Make new roads, addresses, bike lanes, and points of interests easy to find the moment they are built
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Ensure city limits, neighborhoods, postal codes, and other administrative boundaries are accurately displayed
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Add critical services like hospitals and fire stations to the map
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Share real-time traffic data like road closures to help route users efficiently and safely
Maintain a real-time road closure feed?
Share your feed with Waze for Cities to have updates reflected on both Waze and Google Maps within minutes. Learn more
Need to share a single specific closure?
Upload specific one-time road closures to Google Maps Content Partners (GMCP)
Other ways to contribute/manage data or get data insights
For users and data types not supported by our Maps Content Partners portal, we have a range of other options for sharing your data. Not sure where to go? Ask us directly through our Contact Us form.
You can check the status of your upload within our portal (known as the Maps Content Partners portal or MCP portal) and we'll notify you when we've finished processing your upload.
For more information on how we prioritize different data types and exact formatting requirements, check out our content requirements page.
Have other questions? Send us a message and we'll do our best to answer it.