The amount of total views that is counted is not accurate when i added up the total views for each picture.
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That’s an interesting finding @Thenson3387
The view count of photos in Maps works in a bizarre manner.
Whenever an image gets pulled from the server for storage in the cache of a device for viewing, it is counted as a view.
I guess, for each photo, every call is counted as a view.
However, while summing up, repeat requests from the same viewer are ignored.
That may be a probable reason for the sum total of the view count is less than the addition of each individual photos views.
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Regarding photo view, a small difference is quite normal. The update of the counter for a single photo is very fast, while the database with the total views is not continuously updated, due to the resources needed to cycle the data of hundreds millions of map contributors. For this reason you can see a small difference in the values
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