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I'd love to be able to use my photos from external sources without hitting the limit

By external sources, I meant some other photo sharing services like Google Photos or imgur. It's just not very convenient to having download the photo first, then uploading it to the Connect post.

 

I think it's a known fact that Connect has a hard limit of photos that can be posted. No matter how conservative we are in posting photos, sooner or later we will hit the cap.

 

I would love the ability to post photos directly from my Google Photos album, and not having it counted against the cap.I know Lithium is not a Google product and I don't know how complex it is to build the feature, but I thought it just makes sense since most Local Guides takes photos with their phone and use Google Photos for storage/ backup purpose.

 

As for Imgur, technically we can reference an imgur link to get the photo, but (to my understanding)  it's basically getting the photo and having it uploaded, making it to be counted as part of the quota (please correct me if I'm wrong).

 

 

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Level 5

While posting with mobile it's a bit difficult..specially uploading photo..make google photos also an option so that it will  be easier.t ma it more mobile friendly

Level 10

Buenas

 

Ha alcanzado su límite de subida de 1.000 imágenes.

 

Por favor aumente el límite de fotografías a Google Connect.

 

Un Saludo Cordial. 

Un Saludo Cordial de Miguel Ángel.
Former Google Contributor

Hi @Miguelfqmg,

 

I just wanted to let you know that your idea was shared and I'm moving it to this topic I'd love to be able to use my photos from external sources without hitting the limit. Feel free to check it out.

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Level 7

Hola, yo sugiero que permitan subir fotos que uno ha tomado através del tiempo, y las tienes guardadas en tu cuenta de Google fotos, deberían poner un botón para acceder rápidamente a tus fotos en Google fotos. Gracias

Former Google Contributor

Hi @Funworld.

 

Thank you for the proposed idea.

 

I have moved it to the Connect section, as it may have a better exposure of audience there.

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Hi @Artu_rocko@DanniD,@IshakM,@ufukkr

 

Thanks for sharing your ideas. I've merged them to the Idea I'd love to be able to use my photos from external sources without hitting the limit because it's already existinng. Your idea is good but isn’t feasible to pursue. 

 

However there is an option to add a text to an albums on Google Photos which you can share it on Connect. That's how you will have no photo limits. Here you can find an example.

 

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Level 7

When writing a post there's no option to use images from Google Photos - you have to:

- download them from Google Photos

- resize them to fit the 3MB limit

- upload them back to localguidesconnect

 

Could we get an integration please?

 

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Status changed to: Needs information

Thank you for your idea, @liquidblack! We need more information to better understand what you’re suggesting. Do you think this should be applied only to Android smartphones or iOS as well?

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Level 7

@IrrPavlova - Easy to say it should be consistent across all platforms - but I've only tested on desktop (chrome) and it doesn't have the option to use Google Photos which seems like a missed opportunity.

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Status changed to: Voting open

Thank you for clarifying, @liquidblack! Other Local Guides can now vote to show support.

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