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This is probably one of the worst responses Google could take - who is going to enjoy waiting weeks/months for their change to be reviewed and added to a map wh
by bitL 12y ago
This is probably one of the worst responses Google could take - who is going to enjoy waiting weeks/months for their change to be reviewed and added to a map when the whole point of community editing was to enable near-realtime changes to map observed by people living in the area? Throwing out the baby with the bath water. One prank and the whole community suffers beyond reasonable limits.
- sidcool 12y agoProbably the prank cost them too much. We don't know what happened behind the scenes. They might have just dodged a lawsuit.
- vesinisa 12y agoIf they allow unreviewed community edits to the map, why don't they also allow users to revert changes by others? This is how Wikipedia deals with vandalism at least.
- jpatokal 12y agoWikipedia's policy is radically open as far as these things go, and only works because a) they're willing to tolerate vandalism being public for short (and, sometimes, long) periods of time, and b) they have an insanely large dedicated army of volunteers maintaining it.
- JustSomeNobody 12y agoPeople with a bit of patience? It's really not that long to wait. And if it keeps childish acts such as this from happening, we're all the better for it.
- rmc 12y agoHopefully those mappers will move over to OSM where their changes are saved and shown within minutes.