Google to shut down Map Maker, its crowdsourced map editing tool | #GraveYard #GoogleGraveYard  | 21st Century Learning and Teaching | Scoop.it
From techcrunch.com - November 8, 2016 4:48 PM
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 forum for the project that the Google Map Maker service, as a standalone product, is retiring in March 2017. However, crowdsourced contributions to Google Maps are not ending, the company noted – instead, those will be transitioned to Google’s Local Guides program.

 

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