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 ...

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 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 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 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 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 ...

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 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...