Where Should I Upload my Photos to Google Maps?

Es wäre doch wirklich gut wenn man die richtigen Positionen genau kennt.
Mir tut es immer leid wenn solche Bilder letztendlich entfernt werden.
@ErmesT

Thanks for this warning @ErmesT, but I guess a lot depends on how we upload photos to Google Maps. I make the decisions, not Google.

I don’t do this, although I sometimes look at the suggestions just out of curiosity. Sometimes the photos are listed at the wrong place, and I correct it by tapping the 3-dot menu to say “Choose a different place”. But I still might not upload from there.

My main method of uploading is to go to my phone’s camera roll, select the photo, tap the Share icon, tap Maps, then at the top of the page tap “Select a place”. This gives a drop-down list of places in the area, usually including the place I’m looking for, or I go to the bottom of the list and tap “Somewhere else?”. Then I type a search for the correct place if it wasn’t in the list presented.

Some other times I start from the place name and browse to the photos. Of course I’ve already selected the correct place at this point, so even less chance of an error.

This has been my recent experience. I was having lunch at a KFC restaurant, and took the opportunity to photograph the shops on the other side of the street. Now Maps is telling me to upload all those photos to KFC. I know better, and I carefully upload each photo to its correct shop.

Last time I was a tourist 2 years ago, I carefully scrutinised the shop signs in my photos to ensure I was matching the correct names to the POIs on the map when uploading.

As always dear @ErmesT a very helpful and easy to follow post. Thank-you!

I like your description @tony_b and do exactly the the same thing, except for the fact that I first copy all photos to my PC, correct the GEO tag, tag them with whatever I know about the photo and then open the place on Maps to upload selected pictures:

I do exactly the same thing. When I’m shooting for Maps, it’s intentional, and I typically will upload in the moment. What’s left for Google to ‘suggest’ for me are either duplicates of the images I’ve uploaded and forgot to delete from Photos, or unrelated pictures (family, selfies, cool cacti, etc).

As to @ErmesT’s Location Error example, I get this weekly after sitting at my daughter’s karate class. Maps is always asking me to upload videos of karate moves to the page for the massage parlor next door. While it might be nice to get a couple of karate chops to the neck to loosen some tight muscles :joy:, it gets a little annoying to be so consistently wrong.

Not photos, but this happens to me with the daily Answers. Maps presents me with questions about a Bar & Lounge next door to my church every time I go there. I always mark it “Didn’t go there”, but next time it comes back again. I have never even seen the Bar, as there is a wall separating the properties and it enters from a different road.

I get this all the time @tony_b when I have taken videos and photos, I (90%) of the time head to any nearby coffee shop to edit my photos and videos. Next day I get reminders from Google to post those images to the coffee shop where I edited them.

@TerryPG, @tony_b, @JustJake

Did you try to open the For Me tab on the mobile, then look at My Places. For each of the searched or visited places, there is a three dot menu with the option to delete from Google Maps history? I believe it works at least to reduce the number of those false questions.

Thanks Wilfried I will test it out.

Yes, this is one of the places where the offending POI can be removed, but it doesn’t stop it coming back again.

its really funny :joy:

Thank you, @ErmesT, for this very useful post. Your post highlights some common mistakes we make unknowingly when adding photos to a POI. Your examples about the subway station, opposite side of the street, selfies, food duplicates, and even the moon are very clear. Your post is a very good reminder for all Local Guides to check both the correct location and the usefulness of the photo before uploading.