Hi everyone,
i posted over 90 360 images and I don’t receive the trusted badge. Do you know why?
Please help me.
thanks and greetings from Germany
nico
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Hi @user_not_found
“Welcome to Connect! If this is your first visit, you’ve come to the right place. This post will serve as a guide for everything you need to know about contributing content and engaging with the Local Guides community on Connect”. This is the first of the information that you will find in “Your guide to Connect” , the introductory Guide of the community. In there you will find all the necessary information to know how to better contribute in here.
“As of July 19, 2021, new enrollments into the Street View trusted program are put on hold. At this time, we do not award the trusted badge to new contributors who’ve reached the minimum number of photos for membership, and do not list new professionals on the for-hire index.” This sentence is contained in Questions about Street View? Read this first .
Also, from the same page you can read that, “As of November 9, 2022, the Street View app for iOS and Android is no longer available for download on Google Play and the App Store. If you already have the app on your mobile device, you will continue to be able to use it until March 2023”.
Do you have a doubt about how to do something? The Help desk is here for you,with a long list of post with detailed indications on how to post.
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Hi Ermes, this is not good. I uploaded 90 images on Google Street View. My competitors have the badge, I don’t have it.
This is bad for my customers, how can I get the badge or another one for my homepage?
@user_not_found Let say that actually street view moved to street level. You can promote yourself showing your products, even if I suggest you to create a tour, instead to add not connected 360 photos.
In addition, I would like to suggest you to leave the Local Guides program now, because what you are doing is against the Local Guides Program Terms and Conditions : “*Organizations, brands, and businesses are not eligible for the Program.*If you offer services for hire (such as marketing yourself as a Street View trusted provider), you are not allowed to bundle such services with your Local Guide membership”
Local Guides are volunteers, adding their contents for improving Maps. If you are paid, you should not be here
Hi @user_not_found
You understand the @ErmesT words what he said. He told to you “We can’t offering awards for new members” and it’s also mentioned Here please read it.
Thank You keep contributing! All the best
Hi @user_not_found
You wrote it is bad for your customers. I believe you meant it is bad for your business.
There are not really much benefits of the badge except symbolic. You can create, sell and upload 360 images like all other photographers. You will need to show your portfolio of images as proff of quality.
Best of luck. And please exit the Local Guides Program to avoid sanctions from Google.
All the best
Morten
I have shared some tips on how best to leave the Local Guides Program here. It will help you understand the consequences and select which leave method is best for you.
The post you are sharing, @Rakshi2 , is referring to an issue (the SVTP badge not visible in Connect) then fixed, and not to a change in the program.
SVTP badge however is (was) not a reward, but an acknowledgement of a status (trusted photographer)
With the last changes the Street View program returned to the origin (street level). Professional photographer that provide a Virtual Tour are a business, and cannot be part of the Local Guides program
It’s ok sir @ErmesT i am sorry for that mistake