You must be a non-profit entity, a government agency, or an individual acting on a not-for-profit basis and give proper attribution.
Google Map Maker is a Google Maps service that allows users add or edit features, such as roads, businesses, parks, schools and more, similar to OpenStreetMap and other approaches. In contrary to OpenStreetMp, Google claims the

perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display, distribute, and create derivative works of the User Submission. [1]

In the context of natural hazards, Google offers data download in Shape and KML format for several countries in Africa, South East Asia and South America. However

You must be a non-profit entity, a government agency, or an individual acting on a not-for-profit basis and give proper attribution.[2]

.

Africa, SE Asia


Algeria
,
Angola
,
Benin
,
Botswana
,
Brunei
,
Burkina Faso
,
Burundi
,
Cambodia
,
Cameroon
,
Cape Verde
,
Central African Republic
,
Chad
,
Comoros
,
Congo
,
Côte d’Ivoire
,
Democratic Republic of Congo
,
Djibouti
,
Equatorial Guinea
,
Eritrea
,
Ethiopia
,
Gabon
,
Gambia
,
Ghana
,
Guinea
,
Guinea-Bissau
,
Kenya
,
Liberia
,
Libya
,
Madagascar
,

Malawi
,
Mali
,
Mauritania
,
Mauritius
,
Mayotte
,

Morocco
,
Mozambique
,
Namibia
,
Niger
,

Nigeria
,
Rwanda
,
São Tomé and Príncipe
,

Senegal
,
Seychelles
,
Sierra Leone
,
Somalia
,
Sudan
,
Swaziland
,
Tanzania
,
Timor-Leste
,
Togo
,
Tunisia
,
Uganda
,
Western Sahara
,
Zambia
,
Zimbabwe

Central and South America


Haiti
,
Chile
,

SE Asia


Laos
,
Malaysia
,
Myanmar (Burma)
,
Papua New Guinea
,
Philippines
,
Reunion
,
Vietnam

References

[1] http://www.google.com/mapmaker/mapfiles/s/terms_mapmaker.html
[2] https://services.google.com/fb/forms/mapmakerdatadownload/

Literaturempfehlungen zu Google Maps

About fjbehr

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Franz-Josef Behr, Professor of Geoinformatics at Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (http://www.gis-management.de/). His specializations include * Internet, Internet GIS * XML, GML, SVG * Data exchange and Interoperability * Visualization * Open Source Solutions * Consulting Member of the DIN working group NA 005-03-03 AA "Arbeitsausschuss Kartographie und Geoinformation" (Sp CEN/TC 287+ISO/TC 211). He is the author of two authoritative books on GIS in German, one is "Strategisches GIS-Management", published by Wichmann Verlag (2004). The second is "Einführung in Geographische Informationssysteme" (1997).

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