…but will try to make a chart before the meetup on 12th
Thanks @SholaIB, but that only shows the date. I want to see the place each approval relates to. See screenshot below taken after clicking on an Approved Road in the contribution list.
Can you explain exactly where I should put these markers @Port. A screenshot would be helpful.
How then would I use these markers to easily tabulate the number of approved roads per country in a given time period?
My road approvals are now at 310 for today, and are for edits dated beteeen 22 Nov and 2 Dec. The first time I have received more approvals than submitted road edits in one day.
@tony_b ,
I consider counting approval/rejection or its ratio is a waste of time for me I have change my strategy. The most important thing is drawing roads the perfect way “dealing with black spots because of trees or shadow and drawing medium length roads”.
I use markers just for fallow up and complete the areas it save my times to avoid scanning the area every time.
Ah!! Got it now @Port. This thread started as a bit of analysis of effort versus results, so that’s why I was trying to find easier ways to analyze what was happening behind the scenes. Thanks for your input anyway.
15958 vs 3254 
Like @MortenCopenhagen , I moved my attention back to my previous loved activities: ROADERS.
As I previously wrote in a post, my conviction is that the more roads you edit, the more approved edits you are likely to receive.
Unfortunately, I was forced to take a break from road editing during July, August, and part of September. I recently resumed my activity, joining @Shola ‘s TORM Campaign, but in this period, I’ve actually added fewer than 10 (ten) roads as roader.
I knew that resuming the work would be challenging, but not to this extent.
In the last 45 days, I have received from Google:
15,958 emails with an “Under Evaluation” status;
Only 3,254 emails with an “Approved Edit” status.
This results in a disappointing, even shameful, 20% approval rate.
My greatest wish would be to receive a direct communication from a manager explaining the reason for this drastic situation. I would be much happier to see their genuine interest rather than just a simple increase in my approval percentage.
Any other speculation is pointless. Perhaps, as has happened before, keeping up with our edits will result in an increase in the approval rate.
All we can do is hope.
but I keep believe that this is one of the most, if not THE ONE, important activity and I’ll keep moving on!
Take care and enjoy life
@ErmesT @PrasadVR @WilfriedB @Sophia_Cambodia @tony_b @TerryPG
Thank you for sharing this update @palmad1, I have also received update emails at the same time. Thank you, @SarathUpendran, for confirming you too received the emails at the same time.
You might be right @tony_b. The three of us got the email at the same time, so may be they’re sending a bunch of approved emails in batches, possibly by region.
Uhmmm After adding …few.. roads I can say that a “dead road” or a “connecting roads” are having the same chance to be approved.
Oh yes ! It make no sense to create a new edit trying to connect an “orange dotted line” (a pending road)
and this is a case that I’m still studying and try to understand. I do edit “complicated roads” like the one in your example, especially when I’m in Morocco or in Uzbekistan
When you edits roads in villages where all road are “dirty roads - not paved” I have a strange feeling that is better to create in ONE EDIT more connected roads.
I’ve started to record and trace this specific activity to better understand.
Ciao Ermes,
my case is exactly the opposite! The more I add new roads and the more the “approval rate” is related to newer edits. I think (I’m sure!!!) I’ll loose my 10.000 backlog!
I’m sure because in the past I lost my 30K backlog!
Take care and enjoy the day.
Marco
GoodMorning @tony_b ,
about this:
I do remember that when I wrote the 100.000 Roads Celebration post I also wrote about my wish:
WHY in Roadmapper you have your contribution expressed also in KM?
WHY in Roadmapper is possibile to see each single roads added / refused?
Who knows?
Enjoy!
Marco
is great to see that you also are tracing the spot where you are editing roads. A perfect “Roader”.
Unfortunately your gmaps profile is restricted so I can not check your progress.
You wrote:
Why a waste of time? Adding few data in numbers is easy and fast:
| 13-Oct | |
|---|---|
| Under | 30 |
| Accepted | 1 |
As you see when I start on the 13th of October I’ve received 30 “Under approval “ and 1 “Accepted”
For me knowing that after submitting 15958 new edits only 20% are approved is… a disaster.
And I can grant you that
like you I’m doing in the most perfect way I can
What is important is to highlight this situation because, I’m sure, that our connect moderator involved also in “road editing” ( @ErmesT @MortenCopenhagen and others) are discussing this topic with our googlers to find a solution.
We can not invest 3 hours of our time knowing that only 20% … Well, this mean that you totally waste 144 minutes of your life!
happy editing and consider to have your profile public
Marco
Thank you for your analysis, @tony_b.
I echo your analysis: the approval emails, road counts on the contribution dashboard, and points never happen at the same time. This strongly suggests they are likely maintained on different servers, and the sync-up happens in batches.
To answer your questions -
You have raised a truly interesting question—whether Maps employees examine roads in different countries on different days! 
Yes, @Port . I follow a similar approach.
Thanks for confirming!
For sure I’m loosing it too, @MarcoDavoli , as the approved roads are just a very small percentage of what I added. Running at low speed I was adding 50 to 100 roads per day.
Some are still pending, but I believe most are rejected after the usual 90 days.
Do you also think there’s benefit from consistently editing in one specific area? I move around quite a bit, but I still don’t think I see a clear pattern as to where most of my results are coming from.
Thanks for sharing. I do some road editing in India too, both on Road Mapper and regular Google Maps editor, but a lot of my recent road approvals were for Kenya.
In the past we discussed this kind of activity and we tried also to track but is almost impossibile to check. No tools!
I was really focus on Morocco, Tagikistan and lately Tanzania were I was / am editing in “specific spot”. For me means stay there for 20-40-100 editing in a small area.
Then I’m visiting the globe ad also do spot editing… results: almost impossible to say if is good or bad.
To know this we should record thousands of locations (gps coordinates) and randomly in time go back to check.
Personal feeling: better stay focused!
Enjoy the winter season
Marco
Hey @SholaIB I added many roads (I can’t remember how many) but only got approved on one of them. I noted it is a short distant. Others are either pending or rejected and many of my roads were long ones. Any suggestions on how to add? Or do you know why they did not approve my edition? Thank you in advanced for your inputs!
@MortenCopenhagen @SholaIB
En mi caso durante octubre además de participar en la campaña TORM, también agregué nuevas rutas o caminos a través de Road Editor en la laptop y conseguí una aprobación del 44%.
Esta es la información de mis Caminos enviados y aprobados de acuerdo a los correos de confirmación en mi bandeja de GMail.
Es importante señalar que todos los caminos que agregué esta México y esa es una de las razones por las que prefiero esta herramienta sobre Road Mapper.
Mis niveles de aprobación en la campaña TRAC de principios de 2025 tambien fue de un 60% y las rutas que agregué tambien se concentraron en México.
Hello @Sophia_Cambodia ,
I saw your message and I understand your desire to see approved roads after hard work.
Approval process is really really low especially for who is start editing. I saw that at present your “Added Roads “ is still 0 so all your work is still pending.
In this moment my pending situation is > 10.000 and the approval rate is 20%.
I know that the connect moderator involved in TRAC activities started by @SholaIB had already raised this problem to a “higher “level.
My only advise is to stay focus in a specific area (no jump around the world..) and submit every single roads you edit.
Remember:
1 road 1 submission = 15 points
10 roads 1 submission = 15 points
Hope to see you in the TORM or TRAC campaign.
Marco
