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 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 ...

There’s no question that Google Maps is one of the most widely used map sites for business and personal use. Not only is it useful for finding directions to a specific place, but over the years more ...

Google is getting increasingly good at getting its community to do its work for them with Google Maps. Today’s example is a new service called Google Map Maker, which, as you might expect, allows ...

Google has decided to retire Map Maker. The company is consolidating map editing in the Google Maps app and through Google Search. Google My Business insiders like Mike Blumenthal and Joy Hawkins were ...

Google bid adieu to its Map Maker on March 31, pulling the plug on the map editing app. Google's support page shared that some Map Maker's features will be integrated into Google Maps. The decision of ...

Google has just announced that Google Map Maker is being retired or, to put it another way, merged into Google Maps. Google Maps has slowly been gaining features that allow users giving feedback to ...

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 is no stranger to controversial products. The Google Glass was criticized for being a privacy nightmare made real and Google's self-driving cars still continue to be a topic for lawmakers and ...

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 ...

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 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 ...