“Map Maker will be temporarily unavailable for editing starting May 12”

[nilsjuenemann]

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/map-maker/news-and-announcements/crFEbGXJ-HI

[an_ko]

What 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".

[michaelt → an_ko]

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_...

[arprocter → an_ko]

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

[SteveCoast → an_ko]

Painting an android figure peeing on an apple logo.

[rffn]

Is it really necessary to call everything a gate? This is silly and boring.

[rspeer]

This would be a great time to change the HN title to match the link.

[robk]

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.

[hahainternet → robk]

> 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.