Originally posted on TechCrunch:
Back in 2012, Google announced the Maps Coordinate service, a tool for managing mobile workforces with the help of mobile apps and a web-based dashboard. Using Maps Coordinate, businesses could track and dispatch their mobile employees, whether they were truck drivers, pizza delivery guys or plumbers. Now, it looks like Google is about to call it quits on Maps Coordinate. Google today sent an email to existing subscribers, telling them that the service will shut down on January 21, 2016.
This is in line with Google's overall approach to its mapping tools. Last summer, Google rolled Maps Coordinate into its Maps Engine Pro product - a bundle of mapping-related tools that's now called "Maps for Work." Maps Engine, however, is shutting down a year from now, too, as Google plans to focus on its mapping APIs in the Google Maps for Work program. The Maps Coordinate API will shut down, too...
