Mischief makers prompt Google to halt public map edits

[Wireless News]

http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/2RhuU0ikIYfNiVZicL4Wcw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/6472883cd5faf5d9e031fd8bab72adf3dcd5ff65.jpg (http://news.yahoo.com/mischief-makers-prompt-google-halt-public-map-edits-210502812.html)Google on Monday said it is sidelining its crowd-sourced map making tool to implement a way to prevent bogus edits, some of which have proven embarrassing. "As some of you know already, we have been experiencing escalated attacks to spam Google Maps over the past few months," Pavithra Kanakarajan of the Map Maker team said in a written explanation of the decision. Last month, the California-based Internet giant began re-evaluating its user-edited online map system after the latest embarrassing incident -- an image of an Android mascot urinating on an Apple logo. The image, part of a crowd-sourced edit on Google Maps, appeared briefly at a Pakistani location before it was removed.



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