Rif.: Limiting photo upload per each place

[#1]

• Hello Google team
• Local Guides

My idea aim to limit the number of photos uploaded /place to only 5 photos for each user .

Why :

1- we may find places with hundreds of photos can you imagine that the user who is looking for the place will see all these photos ? 

Of course not it's needs a lot of time but if we allow every local guide to share his best 5 photos only for the place we may have chance to be seen all . 

2- some local guides uploaded so many photos to a place just for getting lg points ( which doesn't matter ) far from the quality we expect to be in Google maps . 

Thanks for your time

- some refinements suggested by fellow local guides and I agree with them :

1- number of photos may vary according to the nature of the poi

so  photos number can be determined according to the poi category ( some poi need more photos to be covered properly )

2- local guide can upload more than 5 photos but without LG points ( only 25 point for each poi ) So people searching for points will not use photos to gain more points .

3- 360° photos needs more photo upload, may be 10 or 15 per poi to be connected probably.

4- number of photos could be determined according to  LG level so the higher level can upload more photos .

5- photos could be uploaded as 5 photos for menu, 5 for indoor and 5 for outdoor , with a total 15 photo per each poi .

6- In another way in street view app. there is an option in the settings allow you to auto detect faces so , what about using the same thing in the maps algorithm to detect personal photos and selfie photos ?

[Alejandro10]

Yo creo que deben ser dos fotos muy bien tomadas

[Bibendum74]

Sono d'accordo.  Cerchiamo di incoraggiare recensioni scritte bene e di qualità.

[Przemo]

@NABILazeez  I agree with you.

The same idea reported @LovelyPL two years ago  https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/Feedback-and-Feature-Requests/Simple-feature-request-in-order-...

Because the number of photos is not limited, there is possibility to use Google Maps in frauds, example:

https://www.digit.in/general/booze-delivery-scams-found-running-through-google-maps-in-india-46243.h...

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/02/01/google-maps-being-used-for-rampant-booze-delivery-scam-in-i...

https://www.digitalinformationworld.com/2019/02/google-maps-scam-india.html

I vote for your idea.

Regards

    :-Przemo.

[JayakumarY]

I strongly support this. But the process of restricting photos may decrease the upload density. Usually, we get notifications on our mobile when we visit a place, to share the photos and description with others from Google Maps and sometimes we submit it at once. Or else we may upload it after a while. But the process continues for our next visits as well. Sometimes we may post repeated photos from our end also. The same location can be captured in several angles depending on the season, situation etc. In that case, though tedious, Google can conduct a screening through any means to accept or reject the low quality or similar photos at a later stage. Or the up-loader may be asked to verify the contributions and delete the low quality/informative photos. Google can also suggest some low quality photos to the user in that process. Or show the best photos first when somebody search for a location. If he is going on further show the other photos as well. I know that this applies to my uploads as well.

[NABILazeez]

Hi all local guides 

Thank you all for your precious comments and opinions .

Your comments enrich this idea with more details that will bring the idea to the perfect form.

I remind you that Googlers read every word you write carefully to bring this idea to light in a perfect way which may be different in details than I started according to your suggestions , so feel free to express your thoughts here . 

Best wishes

[Panx911]

What about simply putting an option for people to select view all or view most liked photos and for the accounts that click a preference they see all or randomly sselected images so all uploads have a chance for being seen and or like and can fight for say top 10 pics for a location?

[VasT]

Hi @Panx911,

What you're suggesting here is different from the initial idea. You can check Idea exchange and you will find very similar ideas to yours. You can go and vote for them.

Also, you can read this article How do I use the Idea Exchange?.

[soulebetsen01]

Vous aviez bien raison

[Shoukath]

I think google already screens the photographs and sorts them based on quality. I have seen photographs go down in popularity (due to poor quality/inappropriate pics etc). I have also reported photos these kind of pictures and within a few weeks I see that these pictures disappear from these locations.

[RohithaF]

Hi @NABILazeez 

In reply to following response.

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@Amiran

Hello dear

The idea let's the good users to upload their best 5 photos for each place which is enough and give chance for other users to upload their best photos also 

So we'll have a reasonable number of photos for each place with good quality. 

This gives chance for all photos to be sers by the normal user of Google maps.

I hope that I clearly explained my point .

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A few questions

1. What are the guidelines (yardsticks) to pick best 5 photos?

2. What evidences pointing the optimum number to be 5?

3. How more than 5 Pics prevents others to get a chance to upload Pics?

4. What is the definition of quality?

5. Who is the normal user?

Appreciate your clarifications