Google has sounded the death knell for its crowdsourced map correction system, Google Map Maker, ending its long-term use at the end of March. Never fear, though, many of those features will make a ...

Google announced late last year that it would shut down Map Maker, its older, online tool that allowed anyone to contribute updates to Google Maps. The service, which had been around since 2008, let ...

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 ...

Google Maps relies on 'landmark' information the search giant has 'bought in' from mapping companies such as TeleAtlas. But a new version of Google's Map Maker lets anyone add landmarks to Google Maps ...

Update (04/02/17): As expected, Google has finally put the kibosh on Map Maker. The company says it'll continue to bring more Map Maker features to Google Maps, but ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

This map of a fantasy world was made by the automated map generator @unchartedatlas on Twitter. The striking fjords are reminiscent of Norway. As you travel northeast along the shore of southern ...