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Limiting photo upload per each place for every user

  • Hello Google team
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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 ?

 

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 I strongly agree with you Dr Nabil

It opens a window for spammers to infect the maps with out of topics images

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very good idea
it's hard to me if i searched for place and i found over 200 photos its distraction 
it's better to only view the best photos of the place

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Great and also we want to change number of total photos uploaded for each place.

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Hello dear @NABILazeez, Although I thumbsed up this idea because of the goal behind it but still I'm not totally agree about limitation.

I know the main goal of this idea is to prevent from bad and spam photos but this also cause limiting the good users. What we've experianced about disabling border drawing in Map Maker and now about road editing in Maps. Limiting people from an ordinary and even good task is not something that I expect.

On the other hand to prevent from bad behaviour about photo uploading on Maps, I think there should be easier way and more reasonable method to fight spammers and point-minded LGs. Because current reporting way is too sparse and ineffective in many cases.

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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 .

Thanks

 

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Thank you for sharing your idea, @NABILazeez. We are going to need some further information.
 
How would this reflect venues that for example have been renovated after the 5 photos have already been approved and uploaded?

Also, how are the 5 right photos going to curated? What would the criteria be in your opinion?
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@IrrPavlova

Thanks dear for your response

Every local guide will be allowed to upload only 5 photos per place 

So he will choose the best 5 photos he taken and upload it 

Only 5 photos for everyone so we may have 100 high quality photo from 20 user for one place 

You know that any user  may upload 50 photos or more for one place so the number of photos will be huge and we can't take a look to all these photos which may contain a lot of low quality and spam photos.

In the end every one will choose his best 5 photos to upload.

But the older photos that uploaded till now we can't do anything. 

In the past local guides can take 5 points for each photo with maximum 25 points per place

Equal to only 5 photo .

So we'll return to the old regim after we see the new regim spam. 

I hope that I can explain my idea clearly 

Thanks.

 

Level 6

I suggest that the number of allowed images be according to the level of the local guide

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Thank you for sharing @NABILazeez. Your idea is now open for voting and other Local Guides are free to show their support.

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Good idea Dr. Nabil, but I would recommend to have another one instead which would post it as another idea.

We need to have a vote system that allow the most liked images to appears on the first lines, instead of the current sorting algorithm.

 

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