Twice now I have tried to add a place to an address. The address is 300 North Cranor Ave., Deland, FL, USA, and the Plus Code is 2MJF+JC DeLand, Florida.
This address is the location of the Deland High School agricultural farm. The official name is Deland High FFA Agricultural Land Laboratory. There are barns here, farm animals from that include horses, cows, sheep, goats, and pigs. There is also a small orange orchard here.
Both times that I have attempted to add this entity to this address it was immediately Not Applied. Today was the second attempt and just before the attempt I added several 360 photos from the property. I also have a number of still shots I would like to add but I cannot see how to add stills to an address. Regardless, even with the 360s, and their respective GPS coordinates to prove location, the attempted Add was Not Applied. I also tried to add the web site and phone number for the high school responsible for this school agg lab, but that made little difference.
It’s a little aggravating because my family and I have spent the last five years at this farm raising, showing, and marketing agricultural animals. We have a great deal of blood, sweat, and tears invested here.
What is the scoop on having this location denied? I’m adding a couple of photos here that I took today. The lone black cow is ours by the way.
I have several more .jpgs to show at the place if I could. I also shot two small videos.
There are so many threads about “not applied”. I looked at the “solution” but seems there is none because these SAME questions pop up every day. I am finding there is inconsistency in what is “applied” and approved.
Here’s my problem: today I toured my neighbourhood, which I know very well and added “Historical Plaques” and sculptures. I have successfully added numerous plaques and sculptures in the past, however, today’s additions are “not applied”.
I added 7 locations: 2 were approved, and 5 were “not applied”. What gives? I know many other guides are both baffled and frustrated.
When all of my submissions are approved, I will have reached “expert trailblazer” status - so I want to achieve this goal.
When you are trying to add a missing place, please try to fill all the information correctly (likes opening times, Mobile numbers, web address etc.) that’s the possibility to approve quickly.
When you are trying to add a missing place, please try to fill all the information correctly (likes opening times, Mobile numbers, web address etc.) that’s the possibility to approve quickly.
Many times I have observed that the place we add to maps will approved within no time, when we are nearby to that place physically. The location should be “ON” in your device so that it can recognize you were at that point.
So for the next time when you add a place or edit a place make sure you visited that place at-least once, you can check that in your timeline.
I personally know the frustration of a “not applied” feedback, but I also know that Google need consistency of information, for a place to be applied
To help you further we’ll need to look at all the details of your edit. Please provide the exact details you used for the name, address, phone number, category, URL, hours, GPS location and any other data you entered.
Regarding your statement of
even with the 360s, and their respective GPS coordinates to prove location,
please note that GPS tags in pictures do not have any effect on the likelihood of your edit being approved. Photos themselves could only help if the edit gets sent for review by humans; but the instant denials you describe would be the algorithms denying your edit. Adding photos when you make your edit is largely to eliminate the need to remember to come back later and add those photos.
Thanks for this. Seems to be a widespread problem that is annoying many Google Guides.
I KNOW how to add places: full name, address, photos, hours, website, phone number, have location setting “on”, etc.
Bottom line: Google is not doing anything about it.
I just added another legitimate location today. Same thing “not applied”.
Thanks for your response.
The address is 300 North Cranor Ave. Deland, FL. The map code is 2MJF+JC DeLand, Florida.
At this road is a school farm. Specifically, the Deland High FFA Agricultural Land Laboratory. Since there is no phone at the farm, not even in the office, I provided the Deland High School main admin number, #386-822-6909. Likewise, this specific place does not have a web site beyond that of the school, and I provided that as www.delandhs.org. I did not provide hours of operation since this place is really not typically open to the public. However, the hours would normally be around 0530 to around 2100, depending on when the farm manager or the caretaker decides to open or close the gate.
Actually, if you put in the physical address, the pin comes up right about in the middle of the farm property and right in front of the caretaker’s quarters.
Please tell me what else I can provide for you in this regard. I’ll be happy to do do.
By using a similar name, the same phone number and the same category you were effectively creating a duplicate.
Your entries need to present the facts for that place. The name was correct, it just happens to be close. The phone number needs to be the phone number for the location. If there isn’t one then don’t include one; but that can greatly decrease the chances of your edit being approved. If the place is a farm and not a school then use the category of farm. The marker should go on top of the main building (usually the house for a farm).
In the end I can’t say this one should get approved if you make those changes, as most features on the map need to be open to the public. Farms are given a bit of leeway on that one, but in the end if anyone is trying to add a marker for something not open to the public it should instead be set up as a personal marker in My Places.
All features on the map need a proper name (not a description) and an appropriate category.
For the sculpture the name field should have nothing but the name of it; you shouldn’t add descriptive words such as “Sculpture”.
For the plaques, I looked at one of the ones you were successful on, and I see you are trying to add these with descriptive names and as a tourist attractions. That is not an appropriate category; these are not what cause tourists to plan trips to the area. For a feature to be mapped there needs to be something currently at the location, we don’t map the past history. These sort of plaques by and large are thus not really something that qualify to be mapped on the main map. Instead Google offers custom mapping solutions to add them to the map, which if well set up will show up in searches. Someone has already done so, I immediately found this map when I searched.
To give you some more precise examples, the “Consumer’s Gas Building” plaque apparently indicates a building that used to the headquarters for Consumer’s Gas. If the building is still named as such then it is the building itself that should be mapped rather than the plaque. If it is no longer named as such and the plaque is just telling you the history then that is not something to be place on Google Maps.
A second example would be the plaque to honor Mary Ann Shadd Cary. If someone’s home is preserved as a tourist attraction then the home can be mapped, but mapping a person is not appropriate.
@Xiaomi321 , to help you further we’ll need all the details of the feature with which you were having issues; such as the name, address, phone number, category, URL, hours, GPS location and any other information you entered when attempting to add the place.
I wanted to address you all in one post, as you all seem to have a common misconception as to what creates a successful edit.
Adding a GPS tagged photo will not increase your chances of success as you are assuming. A GPS tag can be fakes in a few seconds. If such a simple thing to fake could increase your chances then spammers would be flooding Maps with fake photos.
The adding of photos is largely so that you do not have to go back and add them later when the feature is added. Most edits are reviewed by algorithm, and they are not going to be able to make decisions based on the view your photo presents. Where it could help is if it goes to a Google employee for approval and they might look at the photo to confirm the name, category, etc.
Similarly, being at the location or having it in your timeline does not increase your chances; that is also very easily spoofed and would be used by spammers if it was true.
What increases your chances is accurate information, it is as simple as that. Additionally your approval speed and rate will increase as you make more good edits; but that is a slow process (again to defeat spammers trying to take advantage).
Could you please elaborate a little further on your example:
“A second example would be the plaque to honor Mary Ann Shadd Cary. If someone’s home is preserved as a tourist attraction then the home can be mapped, but mapping a person is not appropriate.”
Most houses that are tourist attractions and are the “birthplace” or a “famous person lived here” do not have a name (mappable requirement). I assume that we are not supposed to put a descriptive name like " John’s Doe House" or “John’s Doe Birthplace” as the locals/public would probably refer to it.
So are these tourist attractions indeed mappable and how precisely?
