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Google To Reopen Maps To User Edits, With an Anti-Abuse Plan
jfruh writes: When Google opened up its Maps to user edits, a lot of useful information got added — along with plenty of spam and outright abuse, some of it obscene, which led to the program being shut down. Now the company is planning to reopen things to user input, recruiting local mappers that they're calling "regional leads" to filter out problematic content.
Don't care about user edits.
Bring back the old interface.
The new interface gets in the way of so much. The "Classic Google Maps" was a well designed interface that worked really really well. Except for one thing: when you clicked to search on something it didn't automatically give you a search result for a place on the map that you could see. I'm sure that didn't help Google make money as much as the new one does.
The "New Google Maps feedback" has obviously been ignored because Google have not responded to any of the issues that they listed but users continue to ask for it. I wonder why?
A tip for how to go to your mapping website of choice:
1) Start with www.google.com
2) Enter into the search bar "bing maps" or "mapquest"
3) Click on the link to go to Bing Maps or Mapquest
>> Reddit, but with maps
My first thought was "Wikipedia, with maps" (Shudder)