Google is busy hiring 300 temporary workers at its Kirkland, Washington offices to help it make corrections to its maps. This undertaking is expected to last a year.
Google has gained ground on its competitors, companies like Yahoo and Microsoft, by rolling out a series of map overlays for activities like walking and biking. But it has also registered plenty of exasperation from users encouraged to, for instance, bike through the White House.
A Google spokesperson named Jordan told Seattle tech blog TechFlash that a lot of “the work will be focused on data management, said Newman. That includes keeping current on new business listings and the latest information on things like bike trails.”
Google “is working with temporary staffing firms Randstad and Aerotek to find 300 ‘visual data specialists’ to improve the product.”
