Google shuts off Map Maker after urinating robot ruins it for everybody
by Guardian Staff from Technology | The Guardian on (#8WBV)
Company announces prank has forced it to 'take a pause' as it makes changes to how it approves edits made by users
Google has shut down its Map Maker service after a series of embarrassing oversights allowed vandalism - the most notorious example being an image of a Google Android robot urinating on the Apple logo.
The company said it had been moderating all user-generated edits to try to prevent such pranks, but found it impossible to keep up.
If we do not have the capacity to review edits at roughly the rate they come in, we have to take a pause
Related: Google Maps hides an image of the Android robot pissing on Apple
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