The first working-class neighborhood arrived on Google Maps: how it was made and what will be the next

Inclusion has come with technology, and what happened with Google Maps and Argentina is one example. The Mugica district of the city of Buenos Aires, which is part of the Retiro, became the first working-class neighborhood in Argentina to appear on the platform the most used geolocation to find streets. The initiative aims to promote neighboring businesses and social inclusion.

The work was carried out jointly between the Ministry of Human Development and Housing, the Secretariat for Innovation and Digital Transformation and neighbors and neighborhood merchants who have been trained in the use of the Google My Business application, to be able to load the location of your company on the virtual map.

This is a very important step forward for all the inhabitants of Barrio Mugica, but for all the citizens themselves. In the first place brings the district closer to the city, since everyone will have the address of each house they want to go to. But also it is very important for traders, which have several useful functions at your fingertips for your business.

The app allows traders to include coordinates like your phone number, website, opening hours, photos of your premises and receive notices from those who visit them.

How did the inclusion of the Mugica district go on Google Maps?

As we already know, Google maps are generated from the transfer of a very particular vehicle which has a camera on the roof and roam millions of streets around the world. However, for the result of the mapping to be as accurate as possible, the help of local municipalities is essential.

In this case, the Under-Secretariat for Evidence-Based Public Policies, depending on the Ministry of Innovation and Digital Transformation, it is the one that collaborated with Google to digitize the streets and passages of working-class neighborhoods of the City that were not on the map.

This undersecretary collaborated in downloading the names of the streets and especially in something even more complex: the directions of traffic. Logically, the goal is to improve searches and routes to these places, which will benefit the residents of the neighborhood in many ways.

This type of advance helps neighbors in the event of an emergency for the ambulance entrance or aids of all kinds to the place. Of the city they talk about “Breaking down historical barriers”, a process that began from a formal point of view when it was decided not to use the denomination of “slums” for disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, and to use that of “Popular neighborhoods”.

Now the incorporation streets Rodrigo Bueno, Fraga and Barrio 20 neighborhoods on digital maps, as well as the visualization of the plots which compose them.