Steve I have no idea why they changed it. I am told this offers way more, but like all, we are still learning and trying to figure things out.
Glad to see you had a great year.
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Officially, they said something like â⌠to improve usability, specifically for mobile users âŚâ, but I have doubts too and tend to agree with, as you said âit might have to do with server CPU timeâ, or simply costs in general 
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Thanks very much, Wilfried. That certainly wasnât intuitive.
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@TerryPG ; @tony_b ; @WilfriedB ; @shunsader and others
I continue to research the problem that I originally posted here, finding the leaderboards.
In experimenting with advanced search, I have found a couple of searches that work to find the leaderboards. This search:
âTop 100â @AdamGT after:2024-10-01 in:title
Returns all (double check me on this)of the October leaderboards, except Movers and shakers and the Country boards. See screenshot below.
As we have found out searching for leaderboard as a tag doesnât work. In working on title searches I realized that Adam does not use Top 100 in all the boards. Searching for âLocal guidesâ returns too many results. I also created a 2nd search
âMovers & Shakersâ @AdamGT after:2024-10-01 in:title
You can save up to 5 searches under your connect profile preferences. Both searches return the newest posts first.
@AdamGT , if you were to include âtop 100â or T100 or #*$% in each leaderboard title, then we would only need one search to find the most recent leaderboard posts
For way too much info on advanced search, see this
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Thanks for sharing the idea, Alfred!
A pity, the advanced search doesnât allow an âORâ.
One little glitch in your example:
If you want to see only the October leaderboards, it should be after:2024-11-01, otherwise youâll get also the September boards.
@TerryPG ; @tony_b ; @Rednewt74 ; @shunsader
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Wilfried, youâre correct, but I donât understand why. The search by @Rednewt74 made sense to me because October isnât after November. Really stange, but yours works.
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Tony, Adam publishes the leaderboard of the previous month (Oct) at the beginning of the next month (Nov) and the search compares the date of the posting, not what the contents relates to.
@tony_b @Rednewt74
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Wilfred,
You are correct. I was trying to figure out why it wasnât finding all of boards so I switched to an earlier date. Since it sorts them by latest first, I didnât mind catching the September ones too. If you want to continue getting only last monthâs you need to change the date each month.
I saw several complaints about the lack of an âORâ function.
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@WilfriedB,
Iâve tried searching on â1% Ruleâ and â@WilfriedB 1% Ruleâ, but canât seem to weed through the results. For those of us who arenât following threads on a daily basisâŚAND, for those of us whoâve just learned how to Track/Follow other threads, could you please share what the 1% Rule is? - Steve @Rednewt74 @tony_b
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Hi Steve,
first it is not âmy ruleâ, but a rule apparently implemented by Google Maps after February 7, 2024.
Somebody else discovered it and I am tracking the view numbers of all my 7.000+ photos daily since May and did not find any exception yet.
What it is:
We found, the number of views for each photo is no longer updated in real time. Instead the numbers change only if the difference to the previously shown views is more than 1% (or bigger than 5 for the newer ones). For example, if you photo currently shows 100,000 views, you will only see a change when the number is 101,000 or more. This implies for photos which already have a high number of views, it might take a while until youâll see a change.
@shunsader @Rednewt74 @tony_b
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Interesting. For young photos, we probably wonât see that impact, BUT older ones, with a lot of views, surely for those that are really looking.
Incidentally, how do you track those? Is there a way to download the stats for photos? I shot over 8,500 storefronts last year, and am still âcoastingâ off all the work I put in then.
ALSO, since you and the crowd Iâm speaking to have been around for years, has anyone generated a profile/statistics of expected photos to gain serious traction with views? More specifically, from time to time I check to see how many of my photos have over 1M views. Earlier this summer I was at 93, and last week I was at 107. Not sure whether 107 pics over 1M views within 18 months of photographing is lean or actually ahead of the average. - Steve @Rednewt74 @tony_b @TerryPG
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Steve,
The T100 system allows you to track 10 photos (it may be more now). It provides graphs of projected growth. Is this the kind of thing youâre thinking of?. To access the feature you have to be a level 10 in the T100 system (not Google guide level) . Reaching level 10 has been problematic recently.
@WilfriedB is a master at downloading and analyzing maps data.
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Not an easy one:
Once a day, I scroll down all my photo contributions by date on the desktop until reaching the oldest. Then, using the browserâs development tools, I copy the underlying HTML/JS to clipboard, wrote a Python script which analyzes it, stores the current views in a database and writes it to the clipboard to analyze the deltas in EXCEL.
The method only works for me, because I have a database of all my photos and there was some time consuming preparation to start with.
@Rednewt74 @shunsader @tony_b @TerryPG
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Steve, I forgot to mention another method:
Not really statistics, but you can download all photos, you ever uploaded via âtakeoutsâ. Besides each original image file, it brings a text file (JSON) containing date and time the pictures was taken, as well as uploaded and the number of views. Unfortunately, the latter rarely matches the numbers we see under My Contributions.
Two drawbacks:
- It gives you all photos you ever uploaded, which make it huge ZIP-file to be downloaded and extracted
- You need to write some kind of script or program to read those metadata and combine it to some kind of statistics
This way I started creating an inventory of all photos, uploaded to Maps.
Here are more details.
This is the link to request a takeout: https://takeout.google.com/
@shunsader
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Dera friend @Rednewt74 I appreciate you putting so much effort into finding the leaderboards. I tried both commands with the date 2024-11-01 and found the display of October leaderboards.
cc: @WilfriedB
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Iâm glad it worked for you. 
@Rednewt74
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um die Bestenlisten zu finden.
Auf Adams Profil tippen und auf der nächsten Seite nochmals.
Dann auf Aktivitäten und Themen.
Schau dir an was dort gezeigt wird.
Hello Steve,
maybe also interesting for you: If I remember correctly, in this post the â1% ruleâ came up for the first time, together with some other observations and guesses.
Search for âgrowth of 1.0X percentâ, if the link doesnât hit exactly.
@shunsader
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Steve 107 photos with over 1 million views is excellent in a year and and a half.
I have a bunch of photos over the million mark but the majority are from 2-5 years ago. Last year I managed 9 photos which hit the 1 Million mark, Now the 1 % rule takes effect.
This year I am not close, A few of us here posted our results for this year in this thread
Hopefully it takes you to the end of the gigantic thread, where we posted our results.
I think but I may be wrong but in that thread is where @Yaryman came up with the 1% rule.
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