they create duplicated businesses on GoogleMap so that people can find them easily.
they have fake address that does not make any sense on Google Map, (how would a roof repair company has the office at 4-star hotel in the city center??)
they have a business website that looks authentic but you can never find them physically.
they provide very bad services to people who use Google Map to find them,
and people can never find them again afterwards,
and most of the time they refuse to provide any invoice for the service they provide.
Google’s reporting mechanism does work with these fake businesses but only after a long period of reporting them over and over.
Al 7 jaren Local Guide en elke dag opnieuw draag ik met veel plezier bij om Maps-gebruikers DE correcte informatie te bezorgen. Alle info en foto’s uit mijn regio, of daar waar ik kom, controleer ik en pas desnoods aan. Verder specialiseer ik me in voedsel fotografie om de Maps-gebruikers een correct beeld te geven van de gerechten die op het menu staan.
Irrelevante foto’s zoals selfies, herkenbare personen, bewogen of onduidelijke objecten horen niet op Google. Melden of verwijderen is de boodschap. @JanVanHaver
Maar wat met een foto van een half opgegeten gerecht, bestek op het bord of wansmakelijkheden ? Vallen die ook onder irrelevant ?
In my neighbourhood, I’ve noticed that several buildings have the year they were built listed as their address. I have made an effort to address issues, however the reporting process as it stands currently precludes comments, and I get the impression that my revisions are being disregarded. How can a local guide give evidence-based information?
Hello nem értem miért nem lehet új helyeket feltenni a térképre. Több mint 100millió megtekintésem van és úgy kezelnek mint egy újoncott. A buta mesterséges intelegincia még a GPS kordinátákat sem ismeri vicc az egész.
يبدو هذا رائعا ، شكرا جوجل لاتاحة الفرصة لنا لتقديم الخدمة للمجتمع وافادة الزوار للمنطقة والباحثين عن المعلومات الدقيقة ، بالغالب اقوم بتعديل كل ما استطيع تعديله في اوقات فراغي. لكن لا أستطيع تكريس وقت كبير لهذا حيث ان الجميع في مجتمعنا يبحث ايضا عن الفائدة المادية مما يقدمه ، وجوجل لا تقدم هذا النوع من الفائدة ، نأمل ان يكون هذا قريبا لنتمكن من المساهمة اكثر وبشغف اكبر
Indeed @ADJM if your address is not correctly represented on Google Maps, this can have a very noticeable impact - from online orders never arriving to pizzas getting delivered cold
My suggestion for you would be to reach out to the local authorities to figure out if they are already takig part in the Google Maps content partner program. That would give them much more control of how things get published. If they are not yet aware of this program, they can set up an account via https://contentpartners.maps.google.com/
I fully agree @obalureasosa : a lot of incorrect/incomplete entries on Maps are not due to malicious intent, but rather lack of knowlegde on the way things should be mapped, combined with Google’s tendency to just accept input from inexperienced users. But obviously this is a difficult equilibrium for the Google team, especially if you take into the account the number of contributions that are submitted by Maps users all over the globe.
@Miraculix great to hear that. Please tazke some time to read the tips & case study posts linked on this original post. They will definitely help you find more stuff to clean & suggest efficient ways on how to do this.
@AbhishekRaut the Maps team is working hard on implementing automatic processes that will prevent incorrect info/spam getting published on Maps in the first place. But I agree with you that they could do more to remove inappropiate stuff by means of automated processes too.
@RodrigoSinApellido I actually don’t agree that only locals should be allowed to make edits. An example to illustrate this are incorrect categories for places on Maps. On several occasions I have come across places on Maps with a wrong category, often because the best fitting category was only added after those places were added to Maps, e.g. “Escape room”. When that was added as category, I changed the category on hunderds of them all over the globe (by cheking their website or reviews from visitors I was able to make sure they really were escape rooms). So those were valid edits, not because I am a local, but because of my knowledge of the system.
That is a comment I have heard before @MarceloZoyd “Google has so much money, and we local guides have to do this for free???” - but that’s just the way the program is set up. When money is involved, a lot of other things also come into play (contracts, resposibilities, etc), so I prefer to see this as a hobby which is creating added value for the users of Maps and the local businesses (in most cases with much less money) on it.
@malakadil we’ve all been in that situation: knowing 100% for sure that what you submit is correct, but still it gets rejected (typically after a few seconds already). Please don’t get frustrated: the problem is not you, but the way the Maps system works.
