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

[#1]

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).

[GhazalaShah]

There is this option available but confining guides to post via Google photos only may feel bit limiting 

[liquidblack]

@GhazalaShah - a valid point.  I'm not proposing to remove older integrations instead to improve the options available - especially as these are both Google products and the Google Maps already has this option as a natural option.

[JavieraAu]

Thanks for your idea @liquidblack! Please note that I'll merge it to the idea I'd love to be able to use my photos from external sources without hitting the limit because they are similar. Your idea is good but isn’t feasible to pursue. 

Please also don't forget before posting an idea first to check if it's not already existing.

[TraciC]

Hi @iyudhi. While we are unable to provide Google Photos integration at this time, it is indeed possible to insert URLs to images. I'm going to mark your idea as closed. Thank you!

[BrookKao]

I am a heavy user of both Google photos and Google maps. As a local guide, I am level 8 now.

Actually I knew Local Guides Connect forum for a while but I did not share too much. One of the reason is that it's not convenient to share my photos. All my photos were uploaded to Google photo but I am not able to get them directly from the interface when I editing my post here. The worse thing is that when I got the URL from google photo, the link was not acceptable.

The only way for me is to download it and upload again but usually it's over-sized.

If there are any better idea to share photos from Google photo, I believe it would be great for people like me to share and contribute more here.

Brook

[lucasmdla]

It would be amazing to add photos from our cloud to our posts in just a pinch! The only current option is to upload pictures, and most times they are too large!

It would save a lot of time, and it would bring a lot of people who's afraid to post.

[lucasmdla]

Lots of free time to get better posts in a quicker way.

[Zaw-Lwin]

Yes, it's true,  It's quite difficult to post photo. Should be more easier to user.

[NidaFirdaus]

Yah, agree with you @lucasmdla , sometimes if i add photo on google maps take to much a time

and sometime failed because file is large or my internet unstable.

[Kadriye]

Hi Everbody,

I'm big fan of Connect and Google Photos. However, we are unable to upload our photos from Google Photos on Connect. When we try to upload a photo for sharing on Connect, we can only pick a photo from our photo gallery. It would be great to use our photos from Google Photos on Connect since it is much easier.