When we are trying to upload the video to the Google maps, we are getting browser pop-up.
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Uploading video can only be done from mobile device @MadhusudhanA
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Hi @MadhusudhanA ,
Thanks for reaching out!
As @TheEagleEye kindly shared, for the moment, Local Guides may proceed to share video material directly on mobile devices (you may check further on the instructions page), as for the moment, it is not possible yet to do so on desktop version of Google Maps.
@TheEagleEye @sonnyNg Thank you for your response, Can I know that its a limited feature (Unable to upload the video from the browser) or Bug from Google Maps?
Thank you,
Madhusudhan A,
Level 8-Local Guide
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It is not a bug @MadhusudhanA , it has never been available to upload video from desktop.
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@TheEagleEye Thank you for your comments. Query got cleared.
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Hi @TheEagleEye
The statement “it has never been available to upload video from the desktop”, isn’t true.
Before writing this post, I did that just for experimentation. I could upload a six seconds video to a POI from the desktop.
I suspect, there is a restriction on either the size of the file or duration of the video.
Sharing a screenshot of that. Though, the message is calling that as a photo, it was a video in actuality.
Nevertheless, I remember that some six months back, when I tried to upload a video, I was getting an error message after the upload process was over.
Guessing something to be wrong, I repeated the process thrice.
Every time I got the same failure message.
But to my surprise, when I examined my photo uploads after three months, I discovered three copies of the video at that intended place!
Tagging @MadhusudhanA ; and also @sonnyNg to know whether upload of a video from the desktop is not supposed to be done or so.
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Hey @C_T I appreciate your try for uploading the video, but still I am unable to upload the video from the desktop browser. @sonnyNg can u clarify me @C_T he is able to upload the video from desktop browser?
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Hi everyone,
Thanks for the follow up!
Just to be sure, would you mind sharing the file type of the video that was successfully uploaded, @C_T ?
We will make sure to check further on the regard.
Hi @sonnyNg
Yes, sure.
The file type was MP4, recorded on android phone.
I downloaded that from Google photos & then did the upload through Chrome.
File size 16.3 MB & duration 6 seconds.
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Hi @C_T ,
Thanks for the details!
We will make sure to have the information in good use to check with the matter.