Update (04/02/17): As expected, Google has finally put the kibosh on Map Maker. The company says it'll continue to bring more Map Maker features to Google Maps, but ...

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 sounded the death knell for its crowdsourced map correction system, Google Map Maker, ending its long-term use at the end of March. Never fear, though, many of those features will make a ...

Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) professionals should be some of the most tech-savvy student affairs practitioners at your campus. With useful technologies being released seemingly on a daily ...

Google has announced that it will be integrating its Google Map Maker into Google Maps. The project started back in 2008, and the service has been suspended due to people adding stuff to the maps ...

After a series of spam attacks and other obscene edits, Google has temporarily taken its crowdsourced map editing tool Map Maker offline. The online tool has, for years, allowed those in countries ...

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 ...

After pranksters used Google Map Maker to draw an Android peeing on an Apple Logo and engage in other acts of spammy vandalism, Google has announced that it will temporarily shut down its online map ...

Google is suspending Map Maker, the service that allows anyone to contribute to Google Maps, following a prank submission that showed the Android mascot urinating on an Apple logo. When the mapping ...

Google Map Maker was released almost three years ago, allowing users in 183 countries to modify the online maps we’ve become reliant upon. Now Google has extended the reach of Map Maker to include the ...

Google’s map offerings build in the human intelligence on the front end, and that’s what allows its computers to tell you the best route from San Francisco to Boston. In an exclusive story by the ...