A store claimed the whole shopping center

This is the second time this happens in this place, last year it happened the same, this time a store (Urban Store) claimed the whole Outlet shopping center (Las Plazas Outlet Lerma) and now there are two POI referring to the same place.

@BorrisS @LilyanaZ Please could you remove the ownership, and merge these 2 places?

I have already reported them

This is the original one, claimed by the store

This is the duplicated one someone added

Full info of the place:

Name: Las Plazas Outlet Lerma

Description: Outlet Shopping Center

Phone: 7282845092

Web site: www.lasplazasoutletlerma.com.mx

Thanks :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hola @LaloPadilla , puedes eliminar tu mismo el lugar, indicando que el lugar esta duplicado, fusionar los dos lugares no se puede llevar a cabo, una vez que se elimine uno de ellos, todos los comentarios, fotos y datos del sitio se eliminaran.

Ahora para evitar que esto ocurra nuevamente, sugiero que te comuniques con la entidad dueña del edificio del Centro de Compras y ellos tramiten su propiedad en My Business, de esa maneras ningún particular podrá agregar o modificar los datos de este Centro de Compras.

Por otro lado te sugiero que elimines los datos del centro de compras, como teléfono en especial, por un tema de seguridad del sitio y privacidad del mismo. Reglas del programa Local Guides, de todas maneras comprendo el motivo de porque lo publicaste.

Saludos Farid.

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Gracias @FaridTDF por tu respuesta, las modificaciones no se aplicaron.

Hace un año pasó lo mismo en este centro comercial, una vez que quitaron al negocio que lo reclamó, hablé con la administración para que lo reclamarán y al parecer no les importó jaja

Sobre el número de teléfono, los moderadores de Google me solicitaron esa información la vez pasada, por eso la añadí, el teléfono está en su página de internet y como ya sabes, aparece en la información del lugar en Maps, por lo que considero que es “pública” (si fuera información personal sí está mal) te pido de favor me corrigas si estoy equivocado

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Hi @LaloPadilla ,

Thank you for reporting this and sharing all the relevant information. I’ll forward it to our responsible team to investigate.

@FaridTDF Thank you for your vigilance and always considering the privacy of others. In this case, as this is a business whose information is publicly available on their website, it’s OK to be shared. Thanks again!

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@DeniGu - I just noticed the same thing has happened with a shopping centre location I visited a while ago.

Plac Unii in Warsaw

I visited a few years ago and uploaded a review and images to the “Plac Unii” entry that was in Maps at that time. I just noticed this is now called “THAI WOK Plac Unii” and because of this someone else has created a new, popular, entry for the shopping centre as well as other duplicates. When I visited there was just one.

THAI WOK Plac Unii - https://goo.gl/maps/4F6jBff4s2rQe2SD8

Plac Unii - https://goo.gl/maps/iAmnubyHmCp7WQ6X9

Galeria Handlowa Plac Unii City Shopping - https://goo.gl/maps/WNHjGGkL3eVpkfLC9

In my view all three of those need to be merged, the Thai Wok content removed and then for Thai Wok to create a new entry that’s theirs and not the entire shopping centre but I’m 1000s of miles away with no relationship with anyone there and speak a different language so I might not be best positioned to try and sort this out.

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Hi @turbotapeworm ,

This is a similar issue indeed, thank you for sharing it here. I’ll let the team know about these duplicate locations and possibly wrongly claimed business.

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Thanks @DeniGu

I am curious, is this the best way to report this issues or do you sugeggest something different?

Maybe there could be an option called “report owner” I don´t know if there is something similar in the idea exchange.

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Hi @LaloPadilla ,

Thanks for the question! If there’s something urgent that needs our attention and has not been fixed by suggesting an edit on Maps and/or by posting on the Google Maps Community forum, you can share it here on Connect and tag a Google Moderator.

As for your idea about “report owner,” please feel free to suggest it in the Idea Exchange. Make sure to provide helpful details about how you see such feature being represented, where might it be presented, what its function might be, and whatever else comes to your mind. Thank you!

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