For about 12 years now, I’ve been trying to understand the mechanism of how Google Maps works and accepts our suggestions, whether it’s about roads or locations, etc.
Yet, I still don’t get it until this day (if we skip Google Map Maker), so ca you explain this please?
Some of the suggestions I send are 100% accurate, and I live next to, there are no levels of trust among editors, nor even grades for acceptance and rejection.
For example, adding a missing street, but the response is always rejection.
However, when adding something, I don’t give it much importance, as it’s not as significant as the missing (or incorrect) road, whether it’s the direction or other details, it always been accepted.
What are the criteria and standards for acceptance and rejection?
Moreover, some roads on Google Maps are very old and have been reported multiple times without any action taken, while new streets are launched but not added, and reporting doesn’t work either! It requires intervention from the community of that country, as thousands of reports have been submitted, and considering it’s Google, imagine how many will be rejected, accepted, or reported again.
It might take years to fix these errors, and there’s no solution other than allowing the community to fix them.
I have extensive experience in mapping and have fixed enough across different maps (without mentioning names), but I’ve never seen such persistence and style of error correction as in Google.
This approach is too broad and might face any editor, thus Google Maps will remain very poor in our communities as it is if we don’t do something about it.
Lastly, here’s an example of what I reported, which is as clear as day, yet the response is a clear rejection!
a clear photo
and here is what google says
here is another example:
YouTube Video
This R/A has been converted to I/C from years ago… and i do the correction from my phone (imagine how hard) and google not
approve it
What do you want us to do and how do you
want us to help you? You’re not helping us in this matter!
- There are no trusted individuals whose edits are accepted based on their expertise over the years!
- Valid suggestions are not consistently accepted, and I don’t exactly know the reasons (it’s exhausting to repeatedly report the same error) because there are many other errors that catch your attention.
- We don’t have access rights to Road Mapper
What should we do then?
Thanks!
NO1xMOHAMED
