Why? to save memory?
Just curious.

I like having the history.

 

Probably the usual privacy reasons... doesn't want his wife/girlfriend knowing where his other wife/girlfriend lives

 

Yup

 

There are several threads about this and the only solution so far seems to be to uninstall the google maps update and reinstall it. I used the My Maps feature to map out locations that several painters gave me to see what I liked and now I have a bunch of them in the list. It's just annoying and the list keeps growing. I think this was just an oversight by googles developers and will probably be fixed in the next update (hopefully).

 

hope she doesn't read the forum! ha ha

 

Clearing them out of your web history in your google account should work for all recent searches.

Not certain about layers.

https://www.google.com/history/ and click on maps.

 

Found out how to do this... go to settings>>applications>>maps

Then click "Clear data. I also did a clear cache. When you start up maps or Navigation, everything is gone and it resets the applications.