User blog comment:DaNASCAT/Technical Update: April 4, 2016/@comment-1824272-20160405165520

When I contacted Wikia about whether Maps was getting any bug fixes or feature development, and I got a reply that was basically "no", I saw its deprecation coming.

For a website devoted to Fandom, it's depressing to see Maps get officially killed off now. One of the best features ever. You guys should seriously reconsider that decision, because it was very useful to a lot of communities and still is. Fictional worlds and fictional events are an immense part of many fandoms; I even brought up how important these can be in a Fandom article I wrote.

It's not like Wikia has been very transparent about a lot of other things, but Maps was going to be a really awesome feature. I don't see any reason why it needed to die, why you guys needed to kill it off so soon after you made it.

tl;dr I love Wikia and I love running the Ace Combat wiki here, but I, and clearly many other users, highly disagree with the deprecation of Maps.