Chilling on a boat in the waters around Phuket.
Not all photos work but fun story; When showing that I uploaded the picture to Google Maps to a befriended staff member, the hotel owner claimed I was using his pictures.
Thanks to my other pictures I was able to show the police officer called in (they take that stuff seriously here!) that we actually made the pictures ourselves. That ‘half head’ is namely my wife
I was of course able to show more pictures but seeing she’s in bathing suit, I never posted any of those to protect her privacy.
Got a complimentary night at a nice room and a meal for an apology. Very kind misunderstanding and a story to tell
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Wow… That’s a great story… dear fellow LG @Latte .
Very interesting…
I’m from India and I have got into problems while shooting… But not after posting.
I feel our friends @MortenCopenhagen and @AdamGT may have something to say.
Best regards to you all.
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Interesting.
I once was able to prove my ownership of a photo in the following (more borring but also more universal) way:
I backup all my photos to Google Photos. Eventhough they get compressed the quality is fine for me. From there I upload them to Google Maps who in turn compress the quite a bit more. So by simply sharing the link to my higher (not full) resolution version my ownership was proved sufficiently.
I hope you enjoyed the extra night. Say hi to your wife.
Cheers
Morten
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Wondering now how we could proof better those photos are made by x and y, perhaps if there was some sort of ID like EXIF connected to your Google profile. Hm… something for the idea page I guess.
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Do you know @MortenCopenhagen did the Idea-Exchange forum change? It says it’s Read-Only for me and I was only able to find it through my previous input, not showing on the homepage for me anymore.
https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/Idea-Exchange/ct-p/IdeaExchange
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I’ve went through the settings @MortenCopenhagen of my Sony Xperia 5 Mark III which are huge as once you leave the BASIC menu, it becomes a full fledged camera with all the dings and dongs, but unfortunately no option to edit/add to EXIF information.
Neither does anything shows checking the attributes on PC.
Any idea how or where to add this?
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There are numerous apps to manipulate metadata in image files. But you will need to also check if such data survive being uploaded to Google Maps.
Cheers
Morten
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Boats are always so peaceful and relaxing, and to be in the beautiful waters of Phuket must have been amazing. I’m happy you could have a great time and tell an incredible story. @Latte Thanks For sharing with us.
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@Latte ภาพถ่ายของคุณไม่ได้แย่เลย สวยมากๆค่ะ
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Hi @Latte ,
luckily everything went well, but how was it possible that the owner didn’t recognize your photos?
However I think I will not show others my photos until I return home. 
Thanks for sharing the post.
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actually @Latte , taking photos is a feature that can cause problems in some countries because there are many countries where unauthorized photos are a crime, so when taking photos, I try to take them in places where there are no people, so that no one can make a claim. As @MortenCopenhagen said, it is most logical to store them in a place for a while.
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@Kpadarinth @ ขอบคุณ mak mak 
@DENIT33 on his website there were a bunch of similar photos of the same view. It’s a popular tourist spot and it’s very hard to get a photo like mine as usually there’s a ton of boats blocking. This was taken when Covid restrictions were still in place and we got on a boat from a friend. Even then there were still other boats. I got my picture by cropping out my wife afterwards (don’t tell her ) as I always take my shots as wide as possible with my camera zoom at 0.7.
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Oh my word! That’s a beautiful site. High mountains, colourful waters that you can’t take away your eyes from.
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