10-29-2017 09:28 AM
Great. I have contributed 4 MB of photos for google maps through Local Guides. I did this in order to get the extra drive storage. Google never gave me the storage. Now my photos, that are featured on google maps, are burning my cheapo google allotment of 15 measly MB. Thanks for lying and cheating google. It really now is Google's Earth. Jeez.
10-29-2017 10:03 AM
@treddinwater, you mean GB instead of MB right?
Read this link, it will help you recover all that storage taken up by photos. But do make sure you understand what this recovery means, that all your photos will be compressed to a max of 16MP only. So if your original photo is 24MP, after this setting, it will end up at 16 MP max. It's not reversible after you do this.
10-29-2017 10:55 AM
100GB promotion ended on March 4, 2017. https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/General-Discussion/Google-Drive-Storage-Promotion-Ending/m-p/1...
You can follow the indications of @StephenAbraham
For having no space usage in for you storage, or at least for your contribution in maps.
As this seems to be your first post in here, i take the opportunity to give you some information:
As an extra tips, i would suggest you to Search the community before posting as the same subject can be already being discussed.
Welcome again, I hope to see you soon 🙂
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12-25-2017 06:29 AM
That is so true. I' level 7 guide and Google took free 100gb space. Now i should pay for extra storage to contribute Google services on which Google makes money. It wasn' enough that I was doing it for free, plus paying my mobile data plan to upload pictures, now I should pay for gdrive storage?????
It was 1Tb free first, than 100gb, than a badge!!!!, not real one rather a small jpg picture!!!!
That is a way to treat someone who contribute!!!!! Lie to them and charge them
12-25-2017 09:39 AM
I didn't select this solution. What's with that? The solution is google should host the local guides contributions.
12-28-2017 08:36 AM
It seems that Google cares for money not for people who contributed to Google services.
12-28-2017 09:08 AM
I'm the one that marked the solution, because this Is the solution. Your photos are stored for free, using the simple settings that @StephenAbraham
and myself suggest to you. Stephen is a L10, and I am a L8, we have a lot of contributions loaded in Maps and we are not facing the same problem. My 100GB expired 3 months ago, so I searched how to solve it, and the solution works fine. I was aware, as it was clearly stated in the promotion, that it was only for one year, but this is not going to affect our contributions in Google Maps.
Please be so kind to read what has been provided to you.
Thanks
Ermes
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12-28-2017 09:53 AM
Dear @zeiv
If you are so kind to read the solution that has been provided, you will probably discover that you do not need to buy any extra storage to contribute to Google Maps, nor to store your own photos and videos in high quality for free, without any limit.
Feel free to try before complaining for a non problem.
I wish you all the best for a wonderful new year 2018
Ermes
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01-12-2018 05:26 AM
That is what I'm thinking. Unfair from Google (i could use much stronger words). This is the way to loose large number of Local guides.
01-12-2018 05:32 AM
Hi @zeiv
And @PTKLENK
Even if I can understand your feelings, I want to invite you to read this post :Help-Desk/How-to-use-your-space-in-Google-drive
I was facing the situation before you, so I've tried to understand how to manage it
Ermes
Ermes
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