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posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 15 2015, @02:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the why-we-can't-have-nice-things dept.

After halting the service due to an influx of spam, Google is ready to open Map Maker again, with changes that hand much of the control back to users.

Map Maker lets people update the information in Google Maps to make it more accurate. The service will reopen in phases starting early next month, Pavithra Kanakarajan of the Google Map Maker team said in a blog post Monday.

Google suspended the service in May after a rash of unwanted edits. In one prominent case, a prankster drew the Android mascot urinating on the Apple logo. Google turned off user moderation and started reviewing edits manually itself, but that caused a huge backlog and eventually it suspended Map Maker altogether.

Part of the solution is to appoint individuals who will act as regional editors, to ensure that the abuses that were seen earlier cannot occur again. Whether this will slow down the entire process too much or prove to be a workable solution is yet to be seen.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @04:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 15 2015, @04:18PM (#209431)

    does Google not have enough money to pay an employee or two to vet edits, so that edits can be approved in accordance with clear, consistent guidelines

    If you had read the summary, you would know that Google had previously tried exactly that.