Which location should I add to my post?

Hello everybody!

Can you tell me, please, wich location I should add to a post, to a discussion? My current location, or the location of that particular story?

Can someone help what to do if a picture in my post is rotated?

Thank you! :pray:

Best wishes to everyone!

Liliana Solomon

Hello @LiliSol

If you are writing about some specific place in Photography, Travel, Food& Drink or Local stories, then you should add that particular location.

Else, if it is a general topic or How-To’s You can add your current location to the post

Hi @LiliSol

The location got new life very resently when following a location was introduced here.

It increases your chances to spot fellow local guides in your neighborhood.

I already found two new local guides friends in Copenhagen from using this new feature.

Cheers

I want to add that you should only add a location to your post when the post is about a specific location. So, if you wrote a post about Times Square, you should add New York, New York, USA. If you’re asking a general question, not about a specific location, there is no need to add a location to the post and you shouldn’t add locations to posts unless it’s about a location. :slightly_smiling_face:

Hello, @TraciC , thank you very much for your help.

The solution is very clear and useful!

Best wishes! :rose:

Liliana Solomon

Thank you, @MortenCopenhagen , for this new information!

Do you know something about the second question, please?

Greetings!

Liliana Solomon

Thank you very much @C_T !

Can you tell me something, please, about my second question?

Which is: what can I do when the picture of my post appears rotated?

Thank you! :pray:

Hi @TraciC

Only adding location when relevant locally goes against the whole purpose of following a location to find new friends close by. Please reconcider.

Cheers

Hi @LiliSol

It’s recommended to have only one question or idea per post. It is perfectly OK to make two separate posts.

Also, I don’t see any photos here.

If you are using an app Connect is not able to help you rotate a photo. But a many other apps are. Snapseed is one. Or you can upload your photos to Google Photos and rotate then in that app before putting them on Google Maps directly from Google Photos.

On Desktop there is a chance to rotate images before inserting them from your photo collection. (Correction: I now realized that the option to rotate pics is when you upload photos to Google Maps not Connect. My mistake).

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Thank you, @MortenCopenhagen !

Sorry, my question wasn’t very clear.

Actually, my photos in my gallery are in the right position (and I know how to rotate them in the photos gallery whe is necessary), but, many times when I want to add a photo to a post here, on Connect, the photo appears rotated, I don’t know why. I saw that is happening to the other people as well. I never leave it if is rotated, some people do.

Thank you! :pray: Sorry for 2 questions in the same post!

@LiliSol

Thanks for elaborating your question.

I have never seen this happen. If you can reproduce it I’m sure the moderators would love to get the details and investigate. It is clearly a bug, unless you by accident could have hit the small icon used to rotate images in the gallery before inserting them.

Cheers

Thank you @MortenCopenhagen , for your advice. It is exactly what I will do.

Many thanks for your kind support, always!

Thanks for tagging @LiliSol
However, can I understand why a photo disorients on insertion?

Does it happen while doing so through the phone?

Does that happen with pictures in a landscape mode?

Frankly, I never face that problem. Even if I shoot a picture by rotating the phone through 180 degrees, the pic always comes out upright & not upside down. The gyroscope in the phone understands the spatial orientation & makes necessary adjustments.

Nevertheless, to answer your query, If you find any disorientation, please correct that first through either Google Photos or Snap seed & then re-insert that.

Hi @LiliSol

Your problem has been investigated by @C_T and he posted the explanation here.

EXIF-data is some information stored along with a photo. If a camera store faulty orientation data as EXIF-data then the problem shows us like you described the problem. My phones never did this hence I never experienced this problem. It might be relevant for the record if you would care to share the brand and model of the phone you used.

Cheers and thanks

Thank you @MortenCopenhagen !

And many thanks to everybody!