Google Map Maker to reopen in August after urinating-robot controversy

People will now have more power to moderate edits on the service, with 'a community of well-intentioned users' fending off digital vandalism

Google is relaunching its Map Maker tool, which allows people to make edits to its Google Maps service, but will give its community of users more powers to moderate digital vandalism.

The tool was shut down in May, shortly after an image of the Android robot urinating on an Apple logo was discovered on Google Maps just south of the Pakistani city of Rawlpindi, having been added using Map Maker.