What was the one "large scale prank" they mention that prompted this? I've seen a few HN posts with inappropriate map edits both funny and not, but I didn't think any of them qualified as "large scale".
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9432504 [2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/24/android_google_maps_...
I saw it first on HN, but there were stories about it on Google News a few hours later