Google Map Maker reopening in early August after defacement problems
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/map-maker/fY-Cu6355pM
Map Maker will be reopened for editing in early August, and we're
looking for users to now have more influence over the outcome of edits
in their specific countries. This means that edits on Map Maker will be
increasingly made open for moderation by the community. While some edits
will still require moderation by Google operators, our loyal users will
recognize that this is a departure from how we have operated in the past
where majority of your edits were reviewed by Google operators. This has
been a request you've made for a very long time, and this change should,
hopefully, come as good news.
- - -
Hopefully the new moderation system will be more successful than the
previous one. I *very* recently was approached by a Google user desperate
to have a racial epithet removed from their home address on Google Maps.
They were very upset that someone had been able to place it -- they felt
like a target had been painted on their back -- and they had hit a brick
wall with Google attempting to get it removed. Thanks to the help of
great folks inside Google whom I contacted, the offending label was
ultimately removed, but obviously my acting as a Google customer service
proxy contact doesn't scale all that well.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Founder:
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Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
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