Yesterday, after having visited a local supermarket, I received a notification from Maps asking if I could answer a few questions about the place - which I gladly did of course. One of the questions, however, was asking me something I had never seen before: whether the place was at “floor 1” (as I have my phone set to Dutch the question was presented to me in Dutch, so I have no real idea what the original English text of the question is). Unfortunately I forgot to take a screenshot [I know, I know @JaneBurunina@KashifMisidia I advise people during Virtual Meetups to always take screenshots and then I don’t do it myself… ] and I can’t reproduce it at the moment.
My concern now is that the original question might be if the shop is at the ground floor, so at street level, or not - as the meaning of the US English “1st Floor” is “Ground floor” in UK English (and interpreted this way at least throughout Europe). If that is the case, then at least the translation in Dutch is simply wrong as it is really asking if the shop is at the equivalent of what is “2nd floor” in US English. And the answers given to that Yes/No question would then of course be exactly the opposite of what it is supposed to be… adding false info to Maps, a very un-LGCTM thing to do.
My questions now to all other local guides: Have any of you seen this question already? What was the formulation in your language?
Tagging @AngieYC here to please check with the appropriate team members if this is an issue or not.
I’ve never met such question yet. I’ll be ready now to take a screenshot and share if I see it! Perhaps this question is related to places wich have several floors (like airports, shopping malls etc.). Such kind of plans on Maps are not available in my area yet.
Hi, @JanVanHaver . I have never meet the question about floor 1 because in my city(under one million population), the tallest building in my city is only six floors and I rarely writing review to tall building(more 10 floors).
@JaneBurunina@Irfan_dPriyanto I got this particular question about a supermakert that only has a ground floor, and nothing built on top of it - that’s what made me suspect that the question might be an incorrect translation of the original US English text. It was also the 1st time I received that question.