Is anyone else having this issue? It doesn’t happen every single time, so it’s particularly irksome!
Full context from a previous thread which gained no traction:
I’ve confirmed on the Google Help Center that deleting photos from my Google Drive shouldn’t be deleting the photos from Google Maps. I became aware of it when I got an email which congratulated me on my high view count, but the photos were missing.
My work-around right now is to make a photo on my Google Drive Photos specifically for contributions, as I don’t want to keep them for myself.
It’s inconsistent!
Sometimes all the photos will be deleted which I remove from my Google Drive, and sometimesnone of my Contributions will be affected by the deletion from my Google Drive.
I’ve tested this also by contributing photos and deleting half of them from my Drive. 50% of the time, the deleted photos will also be removed from my Contributions. The other 50% of the time, they’ll be unaffected.
@MarisaF even I had issue when I delete the photos in the Google drive which I uploaded in Google map,
Sometimes the photos were missing ,sometimes it will be there in Google map
I thinks there is some inconsistent, which need to be sort out ,hopefully it will be sort out soon by the team
There are also some time ago when the no.of views of photos uploaded by us in google map were not counting ,they freezed for a while but later they fixed they issue ,
I think Google is aware of this situation and there must be Maps backend changes related to photos ongoing. I take the previous photo view count dropped to 0 as an indication of this. Even now, concerns about the view counter is still being reported.
I think we can help Google if we can provide specific details of the incidents of these problem.
Link of the Place that Photo disappeared
How the Photo is added to the place. We have so many ways doing that, so need to indicate how that photo is uploaded.
When we upload, did we choose from Google Photos, from local files, etc.
Are the sharing a “Upload” or a “Linking”. If it is linking, remove file from Drive/Photos will make the photo disappear.
As we have LGC now, and we have active Maps Experts around, please condier to post this to the “Mapping Your World” board.
I thought this is an expected behavior, as when I upload a photo to a location in Maps that appears in Google+ in your Profile under the Photos tab. If I delete that photo (which is essentially shared publicly) it is removed from Maps as well.
You can also see the public photos in https://get.google.com/albumarchive/ under the Photos from posts album. My understanding was that deleting these would delete them from Maps as well.
Yes. I am facing the same problem. If I have uploaded photos on Google photo and then add to Maps, post which try to delete from Photos, it pops a message informing me that it will deleted at all Google places
Is anyone else having this issue? It doesn’t happen every single time, so it’s particularly irksome!
Full context from a previous thread which gained no traction:
I’ve confirmed on the Google Help Center that deleting photos from my Google Drive shouldn’t be deleting the photos from Google Maps. I became aware of it when I got an email which congratulated me on my high view count, but the photos were missing.
My work-around right now is to make a photo on my Google Drive Photos specifically for contributions, as I don’t want to keep them for myself.
It’s inconsistent!
Sometimes all the photos will be deleted which I remove from my Google Drive, and sometimesnone of my Contributions will be affected by the deletion from my Google Drive.
I’ve tested this also by contributing photos and deleting half of them from my Drive. 50% of the time, the deleted photos will also be removed from my Contributions. The other 50% of the time, they’ll be unaffected.
…And the problem is the following.
Normally (using the browser) adding a photo to a Maps POI will create a subalbum in the album “Photos from posts”. So this photo would protected if you delete the copy in Google Photos.
Using the Android Maps app (have no iOS) this doesnt happen. No subalbum in “Photos from posts” will created. Its just a album in the root.
Thats why in this case the photo is also removed from the Maps POI.
You can check this in your album archive. https://get.google.com/albumarchive
For my understanding this is a bug.
If you do a post in the Maps forum let me know the URL to thread, so I can escalate it there to the CM’s…"
WORKAROUND:
When taking photos to be added to Google Maps, take them from your camera app, not within Google Maps app.
Then upload the photos from your device, not from Google Photos.
Then, when you delete them from Google Photos, they will stay on Google Maps.
Basically, you are keeping everything as separate as possible.
This will be necessary as long as Google does not resolve their subalbum bug.
I deleted a bunch of photos last week and got bumped from a level 4 down to a level 2!. I also lost over 200,000 views of my photos, ugh! I was able to retrieve them from the trash folder but still haven’t recovered.
…And the problem is the following.
Normally (using the browser) adding a photo to a Maps POI will create a subalbum in the album “Photos from posts”. So this photo would protected if you delete the copy in Google Photos.
Using the Android Maps app (have no iOS) this doesnt happen. No subalbum in “Photos from posts” will created. Its just a album in the root.
Thats why in this case the photo is also removed from the Maps POI.
You can check this in your album archive. https://get.google.com/albumarchive
For my understanding this is a bug.
If you do a post in the Maps forum let me know the URL to thread, so I can escalate it there to the CM’s…"
WORKAROUND:
When taking photos to be added to Google Maps, take them from your camera app, not within Google Maps app.
Then upload the photos from your device, not from Google Photos.
Then, when you delete them from Google Photos, they will stay on Google Maps.
Basically, you are keeping everything as separate as possible.
This will be necessary as long as Google does not resolve their subalbum bug.
Best solution is don’t use Google drive or Google photos image to upload. Upload from desktop drive or phone’s storage. And I also suggest you that don’t delete something from Google photos folder on google drive. Now check photos below
So I deleted a contribution photo because it was connected to wrong location and it deleted the photos from Google Photos as well so I no longer have the picture and I can’t upload to the correct location.
I’m having the same problem. I want to delete some photos from my device without deleting them from Google Maps. I thought I was doing something wrong because sometimes they were deleted from GM sometimes not. I still don’t have a solution.
…And the problem is the following.
Normally (using the browser) adding a photo to a Maps POI will create a subalbum in the album “Photos from posts”. So this photo would protected if you delete the copy in Google Photos.
Using the Android Maps app (have no iOS) this doesnt happen. No subalbum in “Photos from posts” will created. Its just a album in the root.
Thats why in this case the photo is also removed from the Maps POI.
You can check this in your album archive. https://get.google.com/albumarchive
For my understanding this is a bug.
If you do a post in the Maps forum let me know the URL to thread, so I can escalate it there to the CM’s…"
WORKAROUND:
When taking photos to be added to Google Maps, take them from your camera app, not within Google Maps app.
Then upload the photos from your device, not from Google Photos.
Then, when you delete them from Google Photos, they will stay on Google Maps.
Basically, you are keeping everything as separate as possible.
This will be necessary as long as Google does not resolve their subalbum bug.
…And the problem is the following.
Normally (using the browser) adding a photo to a Maps POI will create a subalbum in the album “Photos from posts”. So this photo would protected if you delete the copy in Google Photos.
Using the Android Maps app (have no iOS) this doesnt happen. No subalbum in “Photos from posts” will created. Its just a album in the root.
Thats why in this case the photo is also removed from the Maps POI.
You can check this in your album archive. https://get.google.com/albumarchive
For my understanding this is a bug.
If you do a post in the Maps forum let me know the URL to thread, so I can escalate it there to the CM’s…"
WORKAROUND:
When taking photos to be added to Google Maps, take them from your camera app, not within Google Maps app.
Then upload the photos from your device, not from Google Photos.
Then, when you delete them from Google Photos, they will stay on Google Maps.
Basically, you are keeping everything as separate as possible.
This will be necessary as long as Google does not resolve their subalbum bug.
