Florist edits competitors' details on Google Maps

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 4:40p.m.

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A Napier florist is facing charges for allegedly hacking into and changing her competitors' details on Google Maps.

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11 Dec 2009 11:32p.m.

Brian Holmes wrote:

As a bye - unfortunately a huge amount of information is listed on Google Maps by third parties that is totally out of date. Business listings especially are just found on the internet and added to a database. There are no checks done to see whether the businesses still operate. I have found many Nelson restaurants that were still listed when some of them had ceased operation 4 or 5 years ago. I believe all the business information in Google Maps should be checked annually for accuracy before actually being published.