The mapathon took place from 12 February to 25 March.[2] Aimed at increasing the amount of local information, prizes, in the form of 10 Samsung Galaxy Note 800's, 40 Samsung Galaxy S II GT I9100's, 50 Flipkart gift coupons worth Rs. 5000 each and 1000 Google Mapathon 2013 T-shirts & Certificates were promised to the top mappers.[3]
Over 26,000 participants who made 2 million contributions to Google Maps, a total of 800,000 POIs (point of interests) were added which include 22,000 health/emergency POIs, 30,000 stores and 52,000 restaurants/eateries.[4]
Google named Vishal Saini as the winner of the tournament with 32077 points.[4] Saini had mapped the city of Pathankot, which is quite close to military installations. The Survey of India informed the company of its violations of the laws and filed a complaint. Google, however, responded by saying that the company was ready to discuss any concerns.[5] On March 21, the Surveyor-General asked Google to stop the event, stating that it did not take any permission from agency before launching the mapathon.[6]
The only rules of the Mapathon were that you had to be a resident of India and only edits made in India will count.