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.
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).
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! Sorry for 2 questions in the same post!
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.
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.
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.