Google agreed to revise the map of the city of Rio de Janeiro in the period a year after Brazil was criticized because it marks the city which is famous for his crime with the information that is not appropriate.
"Google never intended to defame the Rio," said Google's Director of Communication in Brazil, Felix Ximenes, told the newspaper O Globo, noting that people who paint marks on the map that are citizens of Rio de Janeiro alone.
Google Map The visitors recently discovered every place in town was given the symbol 'Favela' (shack or slums), but again clean up this city to host the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
Google promises within six months to a year from now, the map of the city was updated so that the area and the streets of the city should be marked than is represented as a slum.
Nearly a third of Rio's 6 million residents live in slums that crowded city up steep slopes. Most of them are confined to areas controlled due to criminal gangs.
However, berbalikan with the image on the map, slums only 3.8 percent of the total area of big cities, said Matos Pereira Town Planning Institute as quoted by O Globo.
This Google map can fool the people to assume that the city was nothing more than a collection of slums, review O Globo said.
This media Favela-Favela also noted that these small amounts have been dispelled attraction important tourist attractions and residential areas more attractive.
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