Google Map Maker To Reopen In August After Urinating-Robot Controversy

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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.At the time, product manager Pavithra Kanakarajan claimed that there had been “escalated attacks to spam Google Maps over the past few months”.