This week, Google announced the availability of Google Map Maker for the United States. Google Map Maker allows users to label building locations, create unique paths/shortcuts, and label the outline ...

Wired: Free, easy to use, large store of pre-made maps by other users, prints out ready-to-use tactical maps for your role-playing games. Tired: Black and white, lack of communication between users.

Katragadda and Gupta offered a Map-Maker-built map of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay as an example of users adding in details that otherwise would likely be absent from Google Maps.

But having now spent a little more time with it, the functionality makes a lot more sense now, and it's far easier to see Sigil's potential as a map maker.

Google has decided to pull the plug on its free Map Maker tool that people have used for more than eight years to make community edits to content in Google Maps.

Google Map Maker will be reopening for business in early August and in order to prevent any of the cartographic mischief that forced Google to withdraw the tool for a while, it is recruiting ...

Separately Google now says that its community mapping tool Map Maker is available in 27 languages: We […] Yesterday Google provided another round of Transit updates.

Google Map Maker: Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, India, the Philippines and Ukraine are the first countries back online.