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It could be a temporary issue. Or it could be your contributions not following the guidelines very well.
I noticed quite a few issues that could be improved, but not directly explain why your addictions are not being approved.
i think the Policy for adding places is very weird nowadays
i added a location of barber shop in the city without adding supplementary information (phone number , website, photos ) , the request approved within seconds !!!
but if i try to add places far from city
like : farms ، villages ، rivers or any tourist attraction the request " not aprroved " Regardless of i add the full information or not
there should be manual person that aprroved for the places or another approving steps
Villages and rivers are elements of the base map, and cannot be added by Local Guides.
If this is the issue you are having, you should address your query to the Google Maps Help Community , adding an official (governative) documents, to demonstrate the existence of the villages or the rivers.
Trying to add such places, with a tons of photos, will not help. Trying to add the same place several times will not help a place to be approved. On the contrary, it can be interpreted as an attempt to spam the Map
You will not find the solution. Because they just say it again without understanding that there is really a problem. They only copy and paste the same words every time
He tells you maybe it’s a temporary problem. He had previously seen these topics that talk about the same problem and we did not find a solution to it.
And the other person tells you, maybe you are putting in a duplicate place. Knowing that he is watching your level number.
All these topics occur that there is a problem. And no one cares.
بالعربي يبدو انها مشكلة عامة و قوقل لا تعلم عنها. مرت سنة كاملة وماني قادر اضيف كثير من الاماكن الجديدة … تخيل صوري ومراجعاتي لهذه الاماكن الجديدة ماني قادر اشاركها لانها غير موجودة على الخريطة
@Rayan5@muiad its not that uncommon - here are the top few of my recent contributions. Maps has very strong spam protection and our edits do sometimes get caught up. That’s ok, I understand that not all Local Guides are doing edits for the right reasons and I accept the spam traps and lack of approvals that catch those of us trying to be helpful and useful. Its just life. I add/edit things as I find them. It doesn’t look like it form this list but I’m on about an 80% success rate.
@ErmesT
what is the reasons !?
villages and wadies are tourist attraction places in my country
i have added many villages before as (tourist attraction) and the places gets more than 300 thousand views and it was helpful for people.
these places are missing in the maps
ok what about public farms ? also all my requests are " not aprroved "
There are rules about what to add in Google Maps, @muiad , and the simple reason that tourists are visiting a village, or a river, doesn’t change their status.
As I already told you "Villages and rivers are elements of the base map, and cannot be added by Local Guides.
If this is the issue you are having, you should address your query to the Google Maps Help Community , adding an official (governative) documents, to demonstrate the existence of the villages or the rivers."
Regarding the public farms, are the farms businesses, open to a public? Are they selling product or services?