Lately I have been updating a lot of business address. I found that the purchase receipt (or tax invoice) really useful particularly in shopping centre situation. It gives you the exact shop numbers & contact details.
Then I start looking at business name. And I am confused. Let’s say the “Laurent” the cafe. Everyone calls it Laurent or Laurent cafe or Laurent Bakery. But on the receipt it actually says “Laurent Boulangerie Patisserie”. So I’m assuming that this is the legal name for tax purpose. But I’m sure no one would call it by that name and they won’t advertise themselves that way, so “Laurent” actually align with the business guideline, not with “cafe”, or “bakery”?
Yes we use receipts as a source of local knowledge.
You can use local knowledge, Street View and a place’s official website as resources for suggesting edits to Maps.
From Maps Help for you: “Use the official name of a place, the one used on the storefront or website. Don’t add any extra comments in the name field.” https://support.google.com/maps/answer/7084895
Kind regards from Osaka78
PS Great to see more Aussie Local Guides on Connect. Glad to meet you
Just checking one more thing. I know there has been some discussions. Do we still put suburb name behind business name (according to MyBusiness guideline)??? Cause my edits just got “not applied”
There is often suburb name after the business name, say, Officework Kew East, ANZ Balwyn, Village Cinema Knox, etc.
I have an impression that we should say Officeworks, ANZ, etc, and the address will identify/differentiate them and so we should not be suburb name behind business name.
Thanks @Flash . Just curious, so when my edit of Officeworks Ferntree Gully into Officeworks was not applied. Is that a auto computer review or actually a real person reviewed that? Should I keep trying to edit the name??
