Is Two Always Better Than One? The Most Common Photo Violation on Google Maps

[Gurukrishnapriya]

Very educative post @ErmesT Yes very true think like a user. If we search for any famous place thousands of pictures appear and it is our duty not to add duplicates.

[Yannick_S]

C’est exactement ce que je me disais quand j’ai lu ce post @glosings0n

Ça va être parfait avec ce masterclass !

[ErmesT]

@Trachemysta

apply the magic rule “think as another user and what you would like to see to find it useful”

Yes @Trachemysta , how not to agree.

@Trachemysta

Funnily enough Google disregards my “advice” and decide pics are OK most of the time.

Well, that one will be the subject of the last topic of the series that I am writing about photos.
Next one: selfies!! is coming in a few hours

[ErmesT]

Thanks a lot, @Yannick_S , @glosings0n
Please let me know how the meet-up was

[ErmesT]

@KashifMisidia

I always select and upload my own photos manually. Most of the time, my response to Google Maps suggestions is “skip”.

Me too, @KashifMisidia

@KashifMisidia

I have heard about this, but maybe it is just a myth.
If in the past we made mistakes like uploading similar or low quality photos, and now we sit down to remove them, can the Google Maps AI filter become active? Could this put the account at risk?
Or if those mistakes were made 7 or 8 years ago, is it better not to touch them?

I cannot respond on behalf of Google, of course.
IMHO it’s always better to find and fix the old mistakes, but I know that this is extremely difficult when you have thousands of photos under your belt, end even scrolling down to reach them can be extremely painful.
Regarding the algorithm, I know that it’s improving day by day, but everyday I see so many bad [new] contributions. So I don’t think it will be able to detect too many of the violation mentioned here soon. My feeling is that actually the filter just work on the content of single photos, without comparing them with other contributions made by us.
The algorithm will be in any case the last topic of this series, so stay tuned.

[ErmesT]

@Katarina_Cibikova

Thanks for sharing these great tips!

You are welcome, @Katarina_Cibikova
Stay tuned for the next post: Selfies!!

[ErmesT]

@tony_b

Now I have a fresh reason to go back and investigate.

You are welcome, @tony_b

@Erna_LaBeau

Thank you for sharing your knowledge in this very informative article

I try to learn by experience and by my mistakes, @Erna_LaBeau and, you know, I am a person of rules

[ErmesT]

You are welcome, @Ssiddharth2000

@Ssiddharth2000

The only thing I wish to do more is to check my photos which have 0 views and try to find if they’re hidden.

This is an interesting, and mostly mysterious, subject, that I want to raise to the attention of Google with the last topic of this series.
I have some weird case to share about that

[ErmesT]

Thanks a lot, @ChamnanMuon

@ChamnanMuon

Thank for sharing these

You are welcome

[ErmesT]

@WilfriedB

common sense is the most important point here, but there is something else: Awareness!

Fully agree, @WilfriedB
Creating awareness is one of the scope of this topic (and many of mine).
In my topics of course I try to talk to the Local Guides, but always with the hope that Google read them too. Creating awareness starts first of all from a clear communication, while now even a Local Guides who wants to well gets lost on a sea of policies.
How many time we read “I am not violating any rules”? Then we go and explain that’s not always true. Many times we just “think we haven’t”

[ErmesT]

@Gurukrishnapriya

Yes very true think like a user.

Thank you @Gurukrishnapriya

[Ssiddharth2000]

Looking forward to the next post on this series @ErmesT

[Yannick_S]

Yess. Thank you so much

[ErmesT]

Hi all
As promised, here is the next topic of the series: Selfies? No Thanks!

[Elprof]

@ErmesT

4. النسخ عبر المواقع (مثال المركز التجاري)

But this is useful for identifying the stores located inside a shopping mall, or a photo of a company directory board to know where the company you are searching for is located.

[ErmesT]

@Elprof

this is useful for identifying the stores located inside a shopping mall, or a photo of a company directory board to know where the company you are searching for is located

Not really, @Elprof . This is exactly the reason why Google Maps created the “Located Within” feature, as explained in my post.

@ErmesT

If you want to link them correctly, use the “Located Within” feature instead.

[DENIT33]

@ErmesT

This often happens by accident. You visit a place, take a photo, and then:

• You add it to your review.
• You add it to the “Updates” section.
• Later, Google Maps prompts you via notification to “Add photos of this place,” and you click “Yes” without checking if you’ve already posted them. Result: The same image appears three or four times. Maps doesn’t need “reminders”—one high-quality upload is enough

Hello @ErmesT
Mi sono sempre chiesta, perché Google Maps mi chiedesse di scrivere la recensione e aggiungere foto su un posto che avevo già fatto.
A volte ci sono cascata pensando che non fosse stata registrata la precedente e poi notavo la duplicazione.
Sicuramente questo inghippo sarà stato segnalato, speriamo che trovino una formula diversa.
Comunque grazie per avere evidenziato il problema è sempre molto utile.

[ErmesT]

Si, è un problema segnato, e spero che prima o poi venga risolto, @DENIT33 , perché è molto fastidioso

[LUCIANO13_1]

Buonasera @ErmesT,

condivido pienamente il suo discorso dei duplicati e nell’occasione sollevo di nuovo un altro argomento in merito al numero eccessivo di foto che a volte una Local Guide pubblica nell’unica recensione.

Mi era stato detto tempo fa che non era un problema, ma intanto, se ho capito bene una persona che pubblica 50 foto con una recensione ottiene 250 punti. E’ vero?

E naturalmente Buona Pasqua!

[ErmesT]

Buongiorno @LUCIANO13_1
Si, il massimo numero di foto allegabili a una recensione è 50, e per ogni foto riceviamo 5 punti.
Il problema non è la quantità, quanto la necessità di evitare la ridondanza, cioè di non pubblicare foto simili o duplicate, come ho voluto spiegare nel mio post, in quanto i media duplicati o ridondanti diluiscono le informazioni in Google Maps.
Anche se lei non pubblica foto e recensioni, immagino che quando deve decidere se visitare un determinato luogo, anche lei vada a vedere foto e recensioni pubblicate dagli utenti