Does Google plan to ever fix Maps’ massively broken sharing functionality? For years, my wife and I want the very simple function of jointly-maintaining maps of interesting places that we can use on our phones and our computers. We’ve spent hours, and the result is always frustration. The best we’ve found is that one of us can see the other’s points on a map, but can never edit or add their own locations. Plus entire maps routinely disappear from the Saved list or mysteriously forget all sharing permissions, so we have to re-share them all the time.
It’s been like this for years. Every time we go on a trip, we check to see if Google has tried to fix it, and spend another hour getting frustrated at Google. Tantalizing features like “editor privileges” have been been broken for years. Even when we’re sitting next to each other and I click on the “See list on Google Maps” email invitation in Gmail for an invitation sent moments before, the result is
After trying over and over, we usually get read-only “sharing” to work, but never the mythical “editor” sharing Google promises.
How has this been so bad for so long? Are Googlers are so misanthropic they simply can’t imagine people would want to edit a shared list? Does anyone know an app that actually enables people to jointly edit a map on our phones and computers?