This isn’t my first post about this issue, probably the third time I have had to complain about this. Google’s feedback portal is as useful as a car without wheels, it’s essentially nonfunctional and says I am violating community guidelines (this is the exact same post), but I digress.
Let me cut to the chase, my edits are being “phantom accepted”, where the roads that I have edited/added are being added to Google Maps, but I do not get credited or get my points for them because they are left on pending. If you think this is just a coincidence that they just decided to add those exact roads, they PERFECTLY overlap my edits. Provided are some screenshots below, of the existing road layer clearly overlapping my edits. These aren’t street realignments either, on the left with the details it clearly displays that most of the streets were additions and have therefore never existed before.
Thanks very much for listening guys. Again, this isn’t the first time this has happened to me, and is incredibly frustrating. There are so many more dotted around the Darwin & Palmerston, NT region of my edits, so hopefully a moderator can see this and can assist with all my edits and not just these two.
Sorry to sound like a sob, but when this constantly happens, I am hoping some of you may sympathise with me here.
Maybe someone else drew the roads before you, and they get the points. It is now possible to see pending roads drawn by other users. Could this explain some of your frustrations?
Most likely @ErmesT can assist you better than I can.
Thanks for your response, appreciated.
It has always been possible to view road submissions by other users. I usually do not touch and cannot recall a time when I have recently submitted something edited by another user on pending. The lines along the roads are at most places exactly one for one my edits too, so I highly doubt this was another edit by another user. These roads and paths have existed far longer than google was even a company. I highly doubt someone would make the same edit, given I am also one of the only local guides that are active in my area, in such a short timeframe, and even if the case is so, shouldn’t I get the points because I was first?
Thank you for tagging me, @MortenCopenhagen
Hi @tmpltrce , thank you for talking here about “phantom edits” (I call them in the same way).
You should not be worried about that. In fact what you see in there is an edit that has been already approved but not released.
It is a bit complex to explain, but let me try. I’ve come across this situation thousands of times in my contributions, so I started tracking a few of them, and this is what I found:
Approving an added road, sending the approval email and publishing it in the edits list and assigning points are three distinct phases.
In the time between the approval of the road and the sending of the email, the dotted orange line (edit pending) and the solid white line are both present. When the email is sent (it can be after hours or even days) the dotted line disappears and only the white line remains. At that moment the status of your edit changes from Pending to Accepted.
So don’t worry, you will receive the points for those roads shortly.
For more details you have to wait a few days, as I am preparing a post on this topic.
Thanks very much @ErmesT !
Makes a ton of sense now, of course I was going off of what little information a contributor has about the moderation of such roads in Google Maps and submissions etc, guess I was a bit jumpy to conclusions, haha
I’ve just recieved an accepted edit email for exactly one of these situations a couple of hours ago from an edit in September, but hopefully given enough time these will all self resolve. Worries are now no longer!
Thanks a lot for confirming that some has been already fixed, @tmpltrce .
I have thousands of them.
In any case, when an edit is approved you can already “append” an additional segment of road. The funny part of this is that sometimes the appended segment (e.g. a side road) is “officially” approved before the main one. In this case what you see in the editor can appear quite weird but don’t worry about that.
Thanks again for adding roads in Google Maps, for me it is an exciting experience
