“Map Maker will be temporarily unavailable for editing starting May 12”
productforums.google.comWhat was the one "large scale prank" they mention that prompted this? I've seen a few HN posts with inappropriate map edits both funny and not, but I didn't think any of them qualified as "large scale".
A few weeks ago someone edited an area in Pakistan to show the Android logo robot urinating on an apple [1,2].
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9432504 [2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/24/android_google_maps_...
I assume they are referring to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9432504
I saw it first on HN, but there were stories about it on Google News a few hours later
Painting an android figure peeing on an apple logo.
Is it really necessary to call everything a gate? This is silly and boring.
This would be a great time to change the HN title to match the link.
This reeks of bad product management. Surely a good pm and eng team could come up with a more sensible solution than shutting all edits down. This is clearly a second rate product inside Google. Probably managed out of a remote office w bad oversight.
> Surely a good pm and eng team could come up with a more sensible solution than shutting all edits down
Really? I don't know of a single company, person or team that has ever solved targeted spam. "Surely" is doing an awful lot of work there.