Google today announced that it will stop providing the standalone Google Map Maker service in March 2017. At that time, the service’s capabilities — which include adding new places and editing ...

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 ...

Turns out that sometimes, even the very best filters, algorithms, and moderators can’t prevent the worst elements of humanity from ruining it for the rest of us. At least, that’s the case with ...

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 ...

Moderation problems kill Google Maps' editing tools. Well Map Maker was created because Google didn't like the Share alike licence of OpenStreetMap in the first place. At State Of The Map conferences, ...

Yesterday Google provided another round of Transit updates. These include more cities globally as well as full public transit schedules for a number of new cities in Canada, the UK, Houston, Texas and ...

As amazing as Google Maps is, Google thinks it can be better still. And it wants you to help make it so. The search giant has made its Map Maker tool available to its U.S. users so you can assist in ...