Google Maps relies on 'landmark' information the search giant has 'bought in' from mapping companies such as TeleAtlas. But a new version of Google's Map Maker lets anyone add landmarks to Google Maps ...

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 ...

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 ...

You have a choice when it comes to maps, and the answer isn’t as clear as it used to be. Google’s maps are still king, but OpenStreetMap is making a name for itself, gaining favor among many apps and ...

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 ...

On Monday, Google announced that “citizen cartographers came together in Google Map Maker” to help create a “new map of North Korea” for Google Maps. BuzzFeed was the first to point out that the new ...

In May, Google had to close Map Maker because of all the abuse. Well, now Google is planning on reopening it next month. A post by Google's Pavithra Kanakarajan in the Google Map Maker Forums said the ...

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 ...

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’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 ...

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 ...