A backup for photos uploaded on Maps would be helpful.
Here are my reasons:
I do not want to keep in Google Photos pics I took for Google Maps because it’s bloating it. I would like to keep my G Photos as personal as possible in order to easily navigate and find pictures that I’m looking for when needing them. I used to upload the pics from G Photos to G Maps and when I was deleting it from G Photos was gone from G Maps as well.
From time to time the pictures uploaded to G Maps are disconnected from theirs POI, showing “View Place” or “Unknown Place” (device dependant). The funny thing is that this happens to some of my pics around 50k views, but that’s a different discussion.
So, when it comes to those disconnected pictures, I would like to reload them back as there is no tool that would allow me to re-link the “Unknown Place” picture back to its POI.
This is why would be helpful to have those Maps pictures back up in the cloud, but separated from photos.
The easy way I see this would be to have the ability to move the pics (that I take for improving the map) within G Photos to a folder similar to the Trash folder (so they do not show in the photos section, only in that folder).