How to know if you are Over contributing to a Place ?

Google Maps tips & tricks
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@Ant_Bad_Yogi thanks for understanding my point

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@NarenChandra As you rightly put it, sometimes too many photos, especially unnecessary ones will flood the location and make the useful photos possibly harder to find. We should really only upload photos that at least we ourselves will find useful for reference. I don’t believe we could have a ratio/number that can be applied to all locations as a blanket measurement because a small road side shop may only need a few photos, vs a big museum which may need more photos Or a restaurant and a photo of each dish will be useful. But certainly, we should only upload photos that at least we find useful to come back to refer to. Sometimes photos also may accumulate over time because we may visit the place over many years, over and over.

Ultimately, I am sure Google Maps will be more intelligent as time goes on to automatically filter and surface relevant latest photos of each location, as more and more photos gets accumulated per place. That hopefully will give the best way to get most value of the contributions.

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Thanks for the mention @NarenChandra it is always a bit difficult to judge what’s right but I think the guidelines I provided in my post and you consider similar here will help people.

Paul

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Wow @StephenAbraham that is a great over all description of how to contribute, it is true that a famous place with lots of photos might not need much of a photographs now but with time and things change in there the latest picture are necessary.

Hope google machines learning take a bug role and arrange the useful and not

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Thanks @PaulPavlinovich , yes it is upto the local guide to decide whether his / here contributions are helping or not. But this could be a little helpful tip thats all.

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Right

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