Google Maps shuts down editing after 'robot peeing' incident

Google’s public Map Maker tool seemed like a good idea in theory, but the company soon learned the public can’t be trusted.

Intended to allow its community of users to independently add landmarks and helpful tips to Google Maps, a loyal community of amateur cartographers routinely edited Google Maps with little oversight, until pranksters took hold.

CNNMoney reports in the outskirts of Rawalpindi, a Pakistani city less than 10 miles southwest of Islamabad, is what appears to be a park in the shape of an Android robot peeing on an Apple logo.

Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) now has a strict maps review process.

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