In this very moment there are activities prioritized, and the best thing we can do is … do nothing.
Local Guides cannot flag a business as “temporary closed” for the simple reason that we do not have a crystal sphere to predict the future, so we can only report the status (open or closed) as it is at the moment when we report. I know that a lot of Local guides would love to edit the places as closed (five points) but who can guarantees that the same local guides will reopen the business at the end crisis?
What GMB is doing is setting as temporary closed (Yes, a business can do that, for the obvious reason that they will not forget to open the listing again) to all the businesses that, by Local Law, should stay closed, giving the opportunity to the businesses to modify the status.
I do not want to say @TorM , that we just have to watch, but probably the best thing that we can do is to make aware the business of the various option that they have. If you check the article, you will see that the opening status, is changed by the business itself, will be applied instantly
I found many businesses NOT clamed by the owner and market like permanent closed. This is not correct. I thought the current restriction is ensuring this.
And No, GMB is not automatically setting this for all businesses as temporary closed by law.
Excample: Daughter & Son Kinder- und Jugendmode Accessoires für die Mamas
Kirchpl. 9A, 82049 Pullach im Isartal
089 75075544 https://maps.app.goo.gl/j6G7Zeti48fz1AFFA
Additional:
I found e.g. some schools on GoogleMaps who are Not marked as temporary Closed, but the school beside is Market as temporary closed.
Excample: Erzbischöfliche Pater-Rupert-Mayer-Volksschule Pullach
Wolfratshauser Str. 30, 82049 Pullach im Isartal
089 74426131 https://maps.app.goo.gl/FpDynUuLHkKMog6FA
I understand from the side you attached that temperory closed for schools is set by Google central.
My Feedback to Google is, that maybe something is not correct with the settings.
I have to agree with @TorM here. I posted a similar thread yesterday and it got buried under a closed idea.Section See here
Not sure who’s marking them permanently closed but it’s not helping the businesses who haven’t claimed their business on google. In my area as well they are marking schools as permanenty closed. There is and will be a lot of work in “Check the facts” in the coming future
So you mean that some Local Guide is changing the status to closed permanently, and the chance should not be accepted?
And if the school still be open, it means that has not been “automatically” temporary closed by GMB.
I see your point, yes, sorry. You are right, there is something that it is not working correctly on what should be done, according to the GMB communication, automatically
Hi @TorM I understand what you talking about here, which is that some businesses are marked as temporary closed and others are not, I m sure this is because other businesses have people who manages their business and others do not have that, or is simply because their businesses are not claimed.
For those businesses who are not marked as temporary closed, while they are actually closed during the crises of the pandemic, local guides took it by them selves to mark them as permanently closed, since they observed that they are currently closed and the reason might be that it is the only option they have since there is no one managing the business, this is really not a good thing to do, as the temporary closed feature is only available on the owners side.
I have to agree @Raphael-Mahumane Its the same point I was trying to make . Local guides are inadvertently changing Unclaimed businesses to Permanently Closed in my area.
Wish Goggle had a temporary**"closed due to coronavirus "** Instead. It would make things easier for the unclaimed businesses.
We don’t have any further information to share at this point regarding edits and information display on Google Maps apart from what’s already been shared in this announcement post. As soon as we have more information, we’ll share it with the community, but for the time being, please refer to that post.
