Every day, Local Guides share photos and videos on Google Maps that help millions of people around the world decide where to go. To best describe a place, your photos should show what the place looks like, what special features it has, where it’s located, and what visitors could do there.
When we see photo contributions that violate our Local Guides program rules, Local Guides community policy, and Maps user contributed content policy, we remove them. This includes copied or stolen photos (photos that you haven’t taken yourself) as well as photos that are irrelevant to the location they’re uploaded to. If your photos have been made private or removed, they may have violated our policies.
Here’s a guide to photos you should share on Google Maps.
Share photos taken by you at the location you’re contributing to. Photos and videos you upload on Google Maps should reflect your genuine experience at the place.
Show us the special features of the place. Whether it’s a wheelchair ramp or a kid-friendly zone, make sure to share photos that show specific information about the place.
Make sure your photos are recent and show the current state of the place. You may share photos you’ve gathered over the years, but make sure that they’re still relevant to the location and correctly reflect how it looks like today.
Do not upload duplicate photos. Sharing the same photo more than once on one location or across multiple locations is a violation of our rules and policies and may result in your removal from the program.
Avoid sharing selfies and group photos. These photos don’t help to represent the location, so save them for a different platform.
Avoid sharing low quality photos. Dark and blurry photos, or photos with low resolution don’t give helpful information about the location and may be removed.
Do you think you may have shared photos on Google Maps that go against ourguidelines,rules, andpolicies? Go through your photo contributions, remove any photos and videos that may be considered irrelevant or spam, and help others easily find useful information. Remember if you delete your photos and videos or if they are removed by our team, your Local Guides points for those contributions will also be removed.
Photos taken from different angles and a wide background will be useful for the intended visitor to the POI.
Irrelevant photos and inappropriate photos are reported by me very often.
Since the photos of some POI are too numerous and it consumes a lot of time to report them one by one when they run to a misleading hundreds, I have been requesting for a tool to select multiple irrelevant photos to report and delete them en masse.
We already know all this, or at least most of us already know this. It’s in the rules. We read the rules, and yet our photos are still made private without any rhyme or reason. Like the recent issues with photos. – Google should notify us when a photo has been removed and explain why. – I see some guides with 30+million views and their photos are like their personal Instagram, group and personal shots. Others have the same photo 6,7, even 10 times and they remain on the platform.
And I would also suggest that just a photo or two at the most (with different angles per subject to diversify): I would avoid posting 4/5 photos for the same subject (a plate or a monument for example): choose your best photo and only opt for the one !
There are many rules and we have to be careful about what we post on Google maps but often I saw that Google itself is making a lot of mistakes!
For example, many times I receive messages by asking me to post photos that I already did.
But many times…and even I want to delete some of them, hardly respond their software.
There are a lot of mistakes on Google maps and most of the time I reported them…and you know what?, there is no chance to be herd. They do not change anything. Why should waste my time by reporting them?!..and how can one person to give information and to reach the goal or the porpoise of this program when Google have many wrong algorithms?
