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 ...

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’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 ...

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 reopened Map Maker, the platform that lets users edit and improve Google Maps, with a new structure to better moderate community edits. Google suspended Map Maker in May shortly after the ...

Google’s Map Maker has been getting hit hard with spam over the last few months, with one of the most recent and widely publicized incidents involving an Android logo urinating on an Apple logo in the ...

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 ...

Zooming in on the map, the Web giant introduces a new tool for its crowd-sourced mapping app that lets users share and learn more information about their neighborhoods. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter ...

Google has shut down Google Map Maker. A support page went up over the weekend declaring that Map Maker is closed but that "many of its features are being integrated into Google Maps." Map Maker was a ...