Hey, I Added a shop On Map using Missing A Place After Approved I’m adding Phone number, which isn’t Applied. What should i do please Tell me.
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Hello @sramanmeena
You request the business owner to claim the place. There aren’t any charges for doing so.
Later on, the owner can update the necessary information through Google My Business.
There were many published cases of deceitful changes in the phone number and hence please leave that feature to the owner.
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Thankyou For Helping Me.
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Hello @sramanmeena ,
Thank you for reaching out.
Please be advised that I accepted @C_T 's reply as solution because it gives an answer to your question.
In addition, don’t forget to write @ before the Local Guide’s name you would like to mention so that they receive a notification.
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Thanks For Helping Me out @MoniDi
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Dear @sramanmeena ,
Normally, it should be no problem to add a missing phone-number. To allow your edit suggestion to be verified by Google, it always helps to include a photo of stationary or a business card or menu, etc. that has the correct phone number on it.
In addition, you could first add the website (in case the business has one) and make sure that you are adding the same phone-number that is listed on this authoritative source.
Getting a Not Applied response, could indicate that Google stumbled upon conflicting evidence. In other words, perhaps on Trip Adviser, there is a different phone-number listed for this place? Googling for the business and checking out the various data shared about the business from different sources, is a good way to verify yourself if there are other phone-numbers circulating about.
By all means, ask the owner to join the GMB program, but it is my experience that many business owners are not interested in doing so. Google still strives for correct and relevant data on Google Maps, so we should give up too easily 
Having said that, it is possible that your personal trust-score for adding phone-numbers to this category type of business, which means the only thing you can do is move on and leave it for another LG to do so.
When your business in question is very new, it may take time for more information about the place to be available online. Coming back at your edit later is sometimes all it takes (knowing that Google will have different evidence to compare your edit suggestion against).
Happy Mapping!
JeroenM
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Excellent dear @C_T - Your Solution is extremely CLEAR.
Regards
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But I uploaded these location
@C_T what about unclaimed locations like Government offices?
I am trying to add phone numbers of various government offices around here, but i am keep getting this message that "Google couldn’t verify your edit " . How to overcome this?
Attaching phone numbers to government offices is a must IMO. - and most of the listings here do not carry the official phone numbers.
Hello @dotcompals
Appreciate your point.
GOI doesn’t encourage the use of any third-party maps and insists on using the ones issued by Survey of India.
Going on with the same policy, no GOI office will claim a place on Maps.
However, there is a parallel network “nic dot in” which is a repository of all Government-related data. All the phone numbers are available on that website.
A person having access to Google Maps can also access any other website and get relevant and up to date information.
Again, the numbers mentioned by you are of the cell phone network. It’s not clear whether these are assigned to a person or office. If the former is the case, who will update the data on periodic transfers?
Further, the practice of assigning a fixed cell phone number to an office is rare.
Try getting fixed line numbers and arrange to have an update through the send feedback route.
@C_T thank you for your detailed reply.
These numbers, I’m trying to update are not personal mobile numbers.
In Kerala, a mobile number is provided to a village officer, If he got transferred to another village, the phone number remains the same for the office. The number of village office does not change.
I have the list of phone numbers of all nearby village offices and i want to update it with Google Maps. So that any use can easily grab the number from Google Maps.
The trouble with The official govt provided sites are
(1) most of them are not mobile friendly
(2) most of them are not search engine friendly
(3) they won’t be having a search facility in their site.
so for a common man, its very difficult to get hold of the right number.
If we can add these official numbers to each listings, it’d be beneficial for all.
I understand your earnestness to have data in Maps @dotcompals
But, we landed in this situation because many fraudulent persons fleeced the gullible using the loophole in Maps. Otherwise, LGs could suggest a phone number through an edit.
Let’s wait and see whether the feature becomes available once again.
Nevertheless, you can always try the send feedback option to have that update.
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