Google Map Maker

Google Map Maker
Screenshot
Screenshot of the town of Ísafjörður, Iceland, in Google Map Maker
Type of site
Web mapping
Available inMultilingual
Successor(s)Google My Maps
OwnerGoogle
URLwww.google.com/mapmaker[1]
RegistrationYes
LaunchedJune 23, 2008; 16 years ago (2008-06-23)
Current statusDefunct March 31, 2017; 7 years ago (2017-03-31)

Google Map Maker was a map editing service launched by Google in June 2008.[2] In geographies where it is hard to find providers of good map data, user contributions were used to increase map quality. Changes to Google Map Maker were intended to appear on Google Maps only after sufficient review by Google moderators. Google Map Maker was used at Google Mapathon events held annually.

In November 2016, Google announced that Google Map Maker would be retired and merged with Google Maps.[3] Google Map Maker was officially shut down on March 31, 2017.[4]

  1. ^ "Google Map Maker has closed - Map Maker Help". support.google.com. Google Inc. 31 March 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
  2. ^ Katragadda, Lalitesh; Jain, Sanjay (23 June 2008). "Making your mark on the world". Google Maps blog. Google Maps. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  3. ^ Lumb, David (9 November 2016). "Google will retire Map Maker, the tool that let anyone update Maps". Engadget. Archived from the original on 15 November 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  4. ^ "Map Maker update [February 2017]". Google Product Forums. 24 February 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2017.