Add new locations to Google Maps
A while back, Google Maps gave people the ability to edit the locations of businesses. If you know of a local business that has moved or closed, you can edit it on the map. These screens show me removing a local Dairy Queen that recently closed:
Now they've enhanced the user editing feature of Google Maps and now allow you to add new items to the map. I wanted to add one, but the few new places near us were already in there. However, adding a new location is very easy:
Search the listings.
Click the "Add a place to the map" link at the bottom of the left column
Drag the marker to the location of the business, fill in the details, and submit it.
That's it!
Here are a few screens of how that would be done:
With any of those editing features, Google still keeps a copy of the original listing, along with a record of each change that is made. All of this will only serve to make the data in Google Maps even more accurate for everyone to use.