The most important thing about a review is that it should be based on an actual visit you have made to the specific location, is that true of all your reviews?
@mhjn the best review rating I got was for the US consulate visit of mine for my visa. I had narrated the whole step by step experience of not carrying your mobile etc. To the politeness of the staff inside. It was demystifying for a lot of people about to go there.
As @Pea said, best review is detail of your actual visit which will help others as most people have the same questions for any similar place like for a restaurant, their signature dish, quality, service, pricing etc. So the more descriptive we are the best review it will be.
@Pea if you check my profile I have added more than one thousand photos in the last two weeks from 6 different country including many different states of usa. I personally travelled all this places and try to make beneficial reviews for others. After your comment I reconsider and thought that how can Google confirm that I have really visited this places. USA photos are new and Google can see from my timeline that I actually was there but for Japan and Malaysia I visited these countries in 2004.
USA photos are new and Google can see from my timeline that I actually was there but for Japan and Malaysia I visited these countries in 2004.
Adding 13 year old photos to the map is obviously problematic (especially when it's a distant location you may not have visited since) as you have no idea if the image is still an accurate representation of the place. Map photos are not meant as a public album to document our journeys, they are intended to help map users understand what a place looks like now
Thank you for the good tips @Pea . I have added just 10-20 photos from my Malaysia Japan trip of 2004. Most of the photos probably still valid. (Petronas towers, historic building in hitotsubashi university and etc)
It is a good point that maps is not our archive and the places may have changed but what if I add a caption and mention that the photo was taken in 2004 (that was what I exactly do for some photos) . Isn't that a kind of public service that gives an idea about how the place looks like 10 or 100 years ago? Is this against the policy of photo sharing on maps?
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