World

Vandal changed Trump Tower to 'Dump Tower' on Google Maps

It appears someone had a play around with Google Maps and renamed Donald Trump’s glamorous high-rise New York building “Dump Tower”.

For a few short hours, this new name for the building on Fifth Avenue was available for everyone to see – and the news spread like wildfire on social media.

People started having a look to see the name change for themselves.

However, a lot of people weren’t happy about it.

The building has been changed back to Trump Tower now, but it is unclear how the name was altered in the first place.

The data found in Google Maps – like place names, borders, and road networks and so on – often come from a combination of third-party providers, public sources and user contributions.

But that’s mostly in cases when new locations are added and usually any changes made to existing locations would have to go through a verification process.

A spokesman for Google said: “Some inappropriate names were surfacing in Google Maps that should not be, and we apologise for any offence this may have caused. Our teams immediately took action and have fixed the issue.”