10-12-2017 06:03 PM
Hello @BruceDM,
Thanks for advising that you'll look into this.
I'm very aware of Gus' post regarding not applied edits. Sydney is a region that is very well looked after and so Google is very familiar with this city. In previous times I haven't had an issue this severe before where almost everything became not applied. I'm aware of my capabilities and my mapping behaviours as being stellar, mostly following the guidelines (to at which many of them become not applied even if it is truly right).
I think there is something wrong. The last time I can report something similar to this was on 18th June 2017, right when the new points update was being rolled out. This resulted in 90% of edits that day (around Fairfield, and Neeta City Shopping Centre) only coming through as pending, from the most basic map marker edit all the way to attempting to add a category. This wasn't something I encountered before, and the days before and after were completely fine. I couldn't think that it had anything to do with the area, it might've just been the APIs that day.
10-12-2017 06:13 PM
Same thing here. Welcome to the not applied club.
My hypothesis is that this behaviour in the Google Maps API is due to the impending rollout of the achievements guide. It looks like Google Maps has botched up the process and the approver AI. I already have a massive rant that's currently in LGC, and many others have complained so it's not just an isolated issue.
10-12-2017 06:31 PM - edited 10-12-2017 06:33 PM
Dear diary,
Today is day 3. After having a good day yesterday, I'm slowly starting to being a bit more mature about these things and will instead focus on working a solution. Bruce's affirmation that it would be looked into was probably the only thing I needed as some sort of acknowledgement, and so I remain well and positive in the community.
Here are yesterday's edits:
The two in particular that strike me more are the edits of Brides of Beecroft, Sanjha Dhaba and H&R Block. These ones have come through as attempting to also edit the hours as well. I did not edit the hours at all, so I don't know why it's there. And looking at the edit in the mobile app, it's only trying to update the hours to itself, which makes no sense.
Making more and more edits only to become not applied will reduce my perceived genuineness and authenticity as a Local Guide of making the right edits and having them applied, making it seem like I'm spamming the system with bogus edits. Although I said that I wasn't going to make more edits, I can't help it. I have successfully added over 550 places and edited 5200 places over the past few months so I am very much well aware of the algorithms involved when making an edit or adding a place. It's just been these two days it's far more shocking.
Recently many other users have posted on Local Guides connect that almost the majority of their edits are coming through immediately as 'Not Applied', not even with a pending status. So I believe this isn't an isolated issue. I will be linking them below:
Edits not published
Hillsboro Major Address Change and street name change project
Wrong number on a cinema multiplex
Address change
If not even a pending, where does this go? Is the Google team very busy and inundated with requests? Please let us seasonal Local Guides help you. We can state whether or not local places have relevant photos or photos that should be deleted. We can check the name in accordance with our history and involvement through a clearance and trust check. There are edits that take way too long, weeks, to even a few couples of months and we want to help. Just say the word, and place your trust in some of us.
P.S. Previously I have edited the Meadowbank TAFE Library to be exactly where it should be. That was successful back in July when I first started. Now that it moved to the street without a change in address, trying to move it again ends up being not applied. Common sense seems to have been culled, so I am adamant that this is a system glitch.
10-13-2017 11:36 AM
Hello @Briggs,
Thanks for aggregating a number of posts with the users that are having the same issues as you are. We're looking into this issue now and hope to have a resolution for you soon. Thanks so much for your efforts 🙂
10-13-2017 06:26 PM
I have not been on the Feedback forum for some days and totally missed your predicament. Reading about it, I feel that it must have been like massaging salt in your wounds with my question to you earlier today. I am terribly sorry, I had no idea!
The new expert badges have been appearing and disappearing from my Maps App this week and I took it as an indicator that something is not very stable at the moment. Perhaps the two are totally unrelated, but my suggestion is to give it a break and do one or two "safe" edits a day to see if anything changes.
10-13-2017 09:43 PM
@BruceDM, no problem at all. There are a few that have popped up since I posted that one, but since I've aggregated that there is some sort of instability or trend in immediate not applieds to legitimate edits, I think I'll just leave it for the meantime, and make a safe edit once a day.
@JeroenM, hey it's no problem. Although it might seem like it's kind of the end of the world for me, this pretty much warrants a break as a Local Guide for the meantime so I can focus on other things and rest up for a bit. I'm making two particular edits each and every day (the location of my college and a petrol station) but they seem to never go through. My apologies for being very inactive with the Local Guides Academy, as you might tell for the past few weeks I haven't been relatively at ease with the current state of Google Maps and such. I will have a squiz sometime this weekend.
10-13-2017 10:08 PM
Dear diary,
It is the fourth day since this issue arose, and sadly it's four days too long. Surprisingly, I've received the most amount of pending edits being reviewed yesterday, as 28 edits were looked at. What do the labels represent? Well thanks for asking:
Apart from those, it looks like the reviewers are going through their backlog and have halted pending edits momentarily (just a theory). Considering that the team has to go through 50,000,000 (that's 50 million, just like my views!) local guide's worth of contributions, they're starting to catch up as I've experienced yesterday. Although I cannot retract the vulgar language and the languishing that has been published on this post and scattered around Local Guides Connect, I just wanted to affirm the team and the moderators that you're doing a stellar job! You must've had a blast with the Local Guides Summit 2017, and the engineers must've worked so hard to add even more badges for all of us contributors to whimsically wander through and motivate us.
Sorry for the long posts! That's how I roll.
10-14-2017 09:08 PM
Dear diary,
It's been five days. I feel shattered in a way. Google are lucky I'm not unleashing all my anger and frustrations unfiltered because there hasn't been a day that I haven't been busy and the sky has been filled with clouds lately.
I'm thinking that this has something to do with an overhaul of the way the edits are processed. It looks as if the protocols for changing the map marker are excessively strict now, probably going only to the exact coordinate. Although I managed to mark a place as closed and I moved my own sports medicine centre (as I was at the complex), my theory is that you have to be at the place to change the map marker. That obviously is false because I edited one ten kilometres away. But still coming to the fact that I cannot label a 'Japanese Cuisine' restaurant that isn't claimed by GMB as a Japanese restaurant is outright disgusting.
I'm not expecting an answer right away, but I'm really hoping someone's listening or reading this out there. I hate to be the dependent type of guy but I just want to know that someone's working on something. Unless it's the weekend... then, nada.