@MortenCopenhagen I found this article during a search for “Not Accepted”. Most of my mapping started in the second half of March, and I still have “pending” edits across the 3 months that make up the time between then and now. I’m not sure I fully understand what you’ve published here but I’m currently experiencing a slow trickle of “Not Accepted” edits with dates in late March which would be 90 days ago. Seems like anything that’s still pending expires and is changed to Not Accepted on a prescribed date. I very rarely get any immediate Not Accepted notices. Is this working as intended?
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@Rednewt74 your mention of situations with Pending (2) is something I don’t often get, as I mainly draw without changing anything else.
However, I had an interesting situation where I was editing roads in a familiar location in another country. As I knew the road, I added the name at the same time I drew the missing segments. The road was approved in a few days in early April, but the addition of the name was only approved this week.
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@tony_b ,
Very cool that you could add a road name. I have found that Maps has occasional added the name to a road I added.
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Hi @tony_b
Others have also mentioned the clean out of old pending roads after 3 months. But my observations described above also holds true as of today. All my edits made earlier this year have been approved or rejected with in one week. And checking my folder in Gmail with approved edits still show April 25 as when my last road got approved.
All the best
Morten
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Hello @tony_b , Thanks for sharing your observation; 'The road was approved in a few days in early April, but the addition of the name was only approved this week. ’ It’s good that you are adding road names also, which is not known many times.
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Hello @tony_b , Your observation ‘Seems like anything that’s still pending expires and is changed to Not Accepted on a prescribed date’ Yes, many roaders have confirmed this point.
Your second point 'I very rarely get any immediate Not Accepted notices. ’ This suggests that your mapping accuracy has improved, the system has not identified any rejection criteria during initial checks and moved them for further verification. This is my view, could be wrong also.
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@Rednewt74 and @PrasadVR I don’t often add road names. That one occurred near the beginning of my road mapping journey, when I made my first attempt at going outside my own country. I chose an island I’d visited often and where I had accurate knowledge of the location where I usually stayed there. So I went all the way in inserting the road I’d driven on, and giving it the name that the residents of that area used in their address.
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@tony_b ,
I get a few rejections within a week or two, but the vast majority of them show up on the 90 day anniversary. When you are actively mapping, like during TRAC, it’s not so bad, because the rejections are scattered amongst your approvals. Since I’ve been taking a break, the steady flood of rejections is discouraging to see; despite understanding the reason behind it.
Take care and keep Mapping.
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Checking again this morning, top of my list is two Not Accepted entries dated March 30th, and today is June 30th. Scrolling down through the list I see a mix of Accepted and Pending entries across all three months - June, May, and April. Before March 30th there are no more Pending entries listed.
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As you know, @MortenCopenhagen , on March 11 I made a very large test, with 619 roads added in one day.
As I said in there, it was a bit early to see the complete paint, but I needed more time for a full confirmation.
I waited till mid of June to make the final verification, so now I can easily say that your post, even if indeed based on your own experience, cannot be used to represent the global situation of the approval process related to the roads addition in Google Maps. I wanted to wait 90 days to confirm my feeling, and I can now says that, out of a total of 619 roads submitted to Google Maps on March 11:
- 10 were rejected immediately after submission (1.6%)
- 158 were rejected after 90 days (25.52%)
- 451 were approved (72.9%). Of these, 396 were approved in the first 20 days, while the remaining 55 were approved more than 60 days after submission
It is true that most approvals take place within a few days, however it seems now wrong to me to say that “the max processing time has been reduced from 90 days to only 5 days”
Many active contributors are still getting overtime rejections every day, as you can see from the screenshot I took just now.
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Hello @Rednewt74 I can surely understand the reason for your discouragement. As I’m still actively mapping, I get encouragement from the 24 - 48 hour approvals, and almost every time I see a Not Accepted entry the date is a 90 day old road.
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@ErmesT I think your post is an accurate account of the process as evidenced by my own experience. The approvals are occurring spread over a 90 day period, and most of the rejections are announced at the 90 day “anniversary” of drawing.
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I know, @tony_b , and I think my last screenshot is showing exactly that. A road approved after two days, a road approved after 88 days, and one rejected after 90 days
The one approved after 88 days gives me the hope that Google will be able to close the gap, but I also know that during a TRAL the amount of submissions increases a lot, so my feeling is that we will have to wait other 75 days to see if this situation will change.
The amount of rejection for overtime was something that I was expecting, for the reason mentioned above.
But the AI is continuously evolving, so let’s see
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