Google Killing Off Map Maker Editing Tool

[HardOCP News]

Damn, this sucks. With Map Maker gone, how are we going to get all those cool edits like this that popped up from time to time?

Since 2008, the Google Map Maker community has edited and moderated millions of features to improve the Google Maps experience for users worldwide. The Google Maps team took notice and, beginning with adding and editing places, started to bring Map Maker capabilities to our desktop and mobile products to make it easier for more users to keep their communities up to date while at home or on the go. These changes have empowered many more users to update the places they care about, view the status of their edits, and moderate other users’ edits. But, we have some updates to share. Today, we want to let you know that Google Map Maker features will officially graduate and be integrated directly into Google Maps in March 2017 when we’ll retire the standalone Map Maker product.

 

[M76]

I don't understand. Did you read what you copy & pasted? It says they're putting map maker features directly into google maps. So it's not going away, it's just not going to be a stand alone tool anymore.

 

[Uvaman2]

That's cool they are integrating the stuff.

 

[sirmonkey1985]

finally it's being added to the official map, about friggin time.