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Google To Reopen Maps To User Edits, With an Anti-Abuse Plan

Posted by timothy on from the only-advanced-trolls-need-apply dept.

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.

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  1. Did they improved the GUI? by martiniturbide · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Compared to OpenStreetMap.org the Google Maps GUI to include elements and areas was falling behind. Did anybody knows if the GUi was improved on the last months?