Google announced late last year that it would shut down Map Maker, its older, online tool that allowed anyone to contribute updates to Google Maps. The service, which had been around since 2008, let ...

Google Maps is the go-to navigation service for millions, but it wasn’t always as good as it is today. Back in 2008, Google launched Map Maker to allow users to help fill in the gaps to by adding ...

Contributor Joy Hawkins warns about the likely unintended consequences of Google's impending shutdown of Map Maker, calling for the search giant to create more transparency. Google’s Map Maker has ...

Pavithra Kanakarajan, Product Manager at Google Map Maker, explains: As some of you know already, we have been experiencing escalated attacks to spam Google Maps over the past few months. The most ...

So now, in order to address the apparently enormous demand, Google is simply washing its hands of the whole ordeal, instead tasking the Map Maker community with the rather overwhelming responsibility ...

Google has been forced to temporarily disable the ability to edit Google Maps through the Map Maker, following a recent rise in vandalism and fake edits. The service will be unavailable from today ...

Since 2008, Google has run an online tool called Map Maker that allows anyone worldwide to contribute data to Google Maps. Now, that tool is shutting down. The company announced today in its online ...

Google has announced that it will be reopening Map Maker for editing in early August, and will rely on the community to moderate edits on the platform. The company suspended the community editing tool ...