Photos not showing on a new Google Maps location.

I created a new location place in Google maps and added 6 photos. When I go to the 6 photos in my Google Maps contributions tab all the photos show under the location (See example image #3 below), but when I click the “Place Details” to see the public site view, only one photo shows up (See example images #1&2 below). Also, when I go into Google Maps when I’m not logged it or incognito mode, only one photo shows. I’ve never seen this happen on any other new place I’ve created, only this one.

Sometimes Google Maps self heals and fixes replication and cache over time, but it this has been there now for a few days now so I think there is some sort of bug or some problem. I’ve added and removed all the photos several times now, and nothing seems to change. I even set the EXIF GPS locations. Why will Google Maps not show more than one photo?

See

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Egoli+Informal+Settlement/@-34.0306435,18.5333887,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x1dcc4591522beaf7:0x509b62331cc9f146!2sEgoli+Informal+Settlement!8m2!3d-34.030648!4d18.5355827!3m4!1s0x1dcc4591522beaf7:0x509b62331cc9f146!8m2!3d-34.030648!4d18.5355827

Note: This is a place I visited providing some help to people in poverty, and we are putting it on the map so we can coordinate with some other people and organizations to help get these people some additional help. We’re looking a building a small community center. It is hard to not show photos of identifiable people in an informal settlement of people, but none of the photos have identifiable people and should be fine with Google Maps policy.


Image #1 - Multiple photo’s don’t show:


Image #2 - Multiple photo’s don’t show:


Image #3 - Multiple photos show under contributions (4 of 6 photos shown here).

2 Likes

Hi @dibert Maps does not necessarily show all photos. In recent times if the photos are similar Maps doesn’t show them to anyone except the contributor. This is to reduce the occurrence of people spamming Maps with same or very similar photos.

Incidentally there has been guidance from Google in the past that refugee camps and informal settlements should not be added to Maps.

Regards Paul