What would you do with spammers who pollute the maps?

[dennyrwa]

What would you do with spammers who pollute the maps?
The Better way is :
1. Suggest an edit
2. Suggest an edit then delete
give me more ideas to action ...

[LuisRG · Accepted solution]

Hi @dennyrwa. If you find any spammer on Maps, you can always flag the contribution. A team of specialists will receive it and they will review it.

If you find a more serious situation, you can always tell us in private here on Connect.

[Andrew_Sawyer]

I use MapMaker to review the edit as spam, try and mark any other edits which are spam accordingly and then mark their MapMaker profile as spam. 

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@Denny rakhmad widia wrote:

What would you do with spammers who pollute the maps?
The Better way is :
1. Suggest an edit
2. Suggest an edit then delete
give me more ideas to action ...

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[SandeepJinagal]

Yaa Thats Right, Even i Reported Some Places to Remove/Delete.But Removing Process take time more then normal. Even some place i reported are not removed yet.

[TusharRayate]

If you find any spammer on Maps, you can always flag the contribution. A team of specialists will receive it and they will review it.

Regards,
Tushar Rayate

[timothy__tt]

I would say that the processing time is depending on the popularity of your area, e.g. a review of spam in a city may be processed faster than a review of spam in the countryside somewhere.

Is that your case?

[Keith A]

@dennyrwa,

Are you asking what I would do if I found spam on the map, or if I found a Google Maps spammer in real-life? 😉

[YK1001]

@Keith A

If I met one, I will try to learn how the spammer networks operates.  And what make them so successful.

[SandeepJinagal]

Guys Really, I notice some of spammers are Posting their MLM Refer codes in Review Box.

[YK1001]

Hi @SandeepJinagal,

Can you share with me what is MLM refer code?