Google Is Reopening Map Maker and Wants You to Police It for Pranks

Google ’s Map Maker featureis coming backafter getting shut down for too many prank incoming . But now , Google will no longer make out with joke edits to Maps — the company is lap its urine - stained manus of mitigation , shifting most of that responsibility to the Map Maker community .

Googletemporarilykiboshed Map Maker , which permit masses add detail to Google Maps , after people put in an image of an Androidtaking a bad pisson the Apple logotype .

In a blog postabout reopening Map Maker , product manager Pavithra Kanakarajan insist that the community was respectable at policing itself all along , which is eldritch because the community of interests sucking at police itself was why the lineament got close down to begin with :

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The reason for this change is that every metre we observed someone attempting to vandalize the map , many of you acted promptly to remove the offending feature and demonstrate real possession for maps within your part . We have amount to the last that of all the defenses available to keeping our maps clean , the interest of a community of well - intentioned user , is among the most authentic and fast .

“ Mappers”can applyto be “ Regional Leads ” on Map Maker , a Tennessean position to babysit other users and check that nothing fun fink under the microwave radar . By outsourcing give away on mischief , Google can throw up its deal if something offensive gets put up on its function .

Map Maker will reopen on a rolling basis bulge out in August , so get your prank image ready .

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