How do I upload a photo or a proof in order to fix a road? My edits have haven't been applied :(

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Hi Everyone!
For months now I’ve been trying to fix a road, in which the traffic direction has changed due to constructions works. Ive submitted this suggestions 6 times and none of them have been applies because “Google couldnt verify your edit”:

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Because there is no option to add a photo, I have no way to prove my suggestion, and for months now Google maps gives the wrong navigation directions because of that.

Google “knows” how many map edits I have submitted so far (that have been approved) and how many people have found my reviews helpful etc - so why google doesn’t “trust” a local guide to submit the correct info and doesnt apply the suggestion? I found this to be very frustrating and it doesnt really help my will to suggest new edits.

  1. Does anyone know if there is a way to submit a feedback for a road with a photo? perhaps under a different category of suggestion?

  2. Googlers: are there any plans to add this feature (of photos as proof) for map edits? If not, how can I submit this feature request?

Thanks a lot in advance!
Ori

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@Oh_My_Goshen

Such data issues are better dealt with in the Maps support forum.

There you can (and should) upload all the documentation you have.

Cheers
Morten

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I’ll try, thanks!

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Just for the sake of documenting - the “help” I got from the Maps Support Forum was horrible.

Apparently, it is my fault for:

  1. not choosing the correct category (there wasn’t a correct one to begin with)
  2. accidently misspelling the name of the street by 1 letter (it’s not even mandatory to write it, simply choose it on the map itself - which I did)
  3. not knowing I needed to create a shared folder on google drive of Photos with proof of the feedback I wanted to suggest, and pasting it to the note during the edit process.

Here’s the thread from the forum:
https://support.google.com/maps/thread/116755238/how-do-i-upload-a-photo-or-a-proof-in-order-to-fix-a-road-my-edits-have-haven-t-been-applied?hl=en

This really makes me wonder why I even bother fighting about this. Yes, I want people to get CORRECT information and navigation instructions, but not on the expense of my own sanity. It’s like fighting windmills and after 7 (!) times submitting the same thing - I’m now giving up.

I don’t know if any Googlers read this, but I would seriously suggest improving the “fix a road” process.
Ori