Google will shut down its Map Maker tool during March 2017.<\/p>\n
In its place, it will integrate some of the editing features from the software into its Local Guides programme.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis update will enable us to focus on providing the best editing and moderation experience within Google Maps on both desktop and on mobile,\u201d said\u00a0Google<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ll continue to roll out new features to make sure you\u2019re able to do most of the things you\u2019ve grown accustomed to doing in Map Maker \u2013 like edit roads \u2013 leading up to March 2017 and after.\u201d<\/p>\n Edits made on Google Maps will no longer be available for moderation in Map Maker from today.<\/p>\n \u201cThis will allow us to streamline our efforts, speeding up the time for an edit to get published.\u201d<\/p>\n The tool that let users edit Google Maps data is being discontinued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":161734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,167,2272],"class_list":["post-186361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-google","tag-google-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186371,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186361\/revisions\/186371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Gmail and Google Calendar app updates for iOS<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"