There are many people that post photos on Google Maps that have nothing to do with the place they are posting it on. I’m guessing the reason they do this is to try to increase their level as a Local Guide. I regard this as irresponsible and stupid.
I ask all of you to report the problem if you see a photo on Google Maps that is not a photo or video of the place. There are other reasons why you can report a problem but the one that annoys me the most is posting photos that have absolutely nothing to do with the place.
Yes, this is one important things. I should also remind that for whom doing such reports continously, currently using Google Maps app or using map on web search is easier for report because it doesn’t need recapcha.
Some people focus only on the points without considering the impact of their contributions. I think it’s in the right direction to report corprite in order to make maps eco-friendly. Kudos @TheEagleEye
While on the subject (and maybe this is unrelated?), I also notice on Google maps of reviews that are unrelated to the business being reviewed.
Perhaps due to similar names but completely different addresses. In that incidence, when I tried to “report” it, there’s no option to indicate that the reviews are not for that business, so I decided not to report.
However, I have to add that sometimes it can happen that you accidentally post the wrong photo as I recently discovered by chance that it happened to me when I recently re-visited a place that I visited about 18 months ago. I looked up the review I’d left back then and found that somehow I had added the wrong photo for it. I deleted it but as I said it was only by chance that I saw this.
I haven’t found a simple and efficient way to walk through each of my reviews and see all the associated photos so that I can check a couple of reviews each day to make sure that I haven’t added any wrong photos and also so that I could quickly and easily delete ones that I now thought were of bad quality (see: Annoying Maps behaviour on desktop PC). Given the number of LGs spread all over the world and given that by definition it is LGs that are the more frequent reviewers, I think if we all did this, it would have a very positive impact on the quality of Maps.
What got me angry today was that I was looking at Google Maps to a cafe I was considering going to, and saw photos of a family posting pictures of themselves at a beach which had nothing to do with the cafe. It wasn’t one or two but many photos.
Google Maps doesn’t make it easy for LGs to report some issues. If you report several problems, Google prompts you to answer questions, and the more you do the more questions you get asked. Sometimes I just give up and leave it.
Like you I have seen heaps of this kind of bad behaviour and you are so right Google Maps doesn’t make it easy for LGs to report some issues here’s another example of bad behaviour I reported it and my suggested edit was immediately Not Applied. Yes it was explained that this was a claimed business but heck even blind Freddy can see that this is bad behaviour and like you have said, s****ometimes I just give up and leave it. It annoys me that I spend valuable time submitting feedback/suggested edits etc and trying to explain or justify the submitted edits when they are Not Applied. There just has to be a better way!!!
I’m sure in Google they are trying to avoid this, by the questions or the sentence you want to show a photo, you have to put what is it what you see in the photo, once it happened to me at Cotsco, I began taking photos and in a moment before they are in the review that asked me what do you see, so I simply take it easy went for a yogurt ice cream, take a sit and took my time to fill the blank space in each photo .
@TheEagleEye you are right,but there are persons that may do the copy -paste, as you say without even visiting the place… But can you imagine their conscience is a copy -paste one… How can they get used to it?
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