Google Maps Mapathon 2013 Top Contributors

In order to create better maps for India, Google Maps announced India's first ever mapping competition on 7 Feb, 2013 which was posted by Jayanth Mysore, Senior Product Manager for Map Maker on its official blog. They name the competition Mapathon 2013 and it was started on Feb 12, 2013 and culminated on March 25, 2013. The mapping contest was just open to anybody who lives in India.

To get involved more mappers around the country Google Maps also announced some exciting prizes. Google Maps announced 10 Samsung Galaxy Note 800 Android Tablets for top 10 mappers. Similarly, 40 Samsung Galaxy S II GT I9100 Android Phones, 50 Flipkart gift coupons worth Rs. 5000 each and 1000 Google Mapathon 2013 T-Shirts and certificates.

Although Google Maps has 1100 prizes for mappers, the below list is the top 10 winners. Rest of the winners are informed my emails. List of top 10 mappers of India for Google Maps Mapathon 2013.

Name	Rank	Points	Place
Vishal Saini	1	32,077	Pathankot
Manu Augustine	2	30,454	Kottayam District
Sathish Kumar M	3	29,914	Namakkal
Pravendra Kumar Pankaj	4	25,836	New Delhi
Santosh Kumar Guptha	5	25,598	Hyderabad
Yogesh Ranganathan	6	22,582	Chennai
Edula Ravinder Reddy	7	21,350	Kothagudem
Balu Velayudhan	8	21,106	Cochin
Gaurav Kumar	9	20,388	Patna
Arun Kumar Kanmani	10	20,163	Neyveli

I was also excited about the results since I was a participant of Mapathon 2013. But when I have got an email from Mapathon Team on 31st Oct, 2013 that I am also a winner of Mapathon 2013. I could not believe myself that my name is also included among the winners.

According to Mapathon team, there were over 75,000 participants for Mapathon 2013 contest who made more than 2 million contributions and their efforts were most exceptional. Below image of Mapathon email that I have got from Mapathon Team. I have got a T-Shirt and a certificate signed by Jen Fitzpatrick, Vice President, Google.