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Why is my edit status “Pending” or “Not Applied”?

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Caption: A graphic that shows “NOT APPLIED” has been added to suggested edits on Google Maps.Caption: A graphic that shows “NOT APPLIED” has been added to suggested edits on Google Maps.

Local Guides submit edits on Google Maps to ensure their communities are accurately represented. After you add an edit to Google Maps, it’s reviewed by either local operators, an automated system, or both to ensure the information is accurate and follows our guidelines.

 

If your edit is Pending, that means we’re still reviewing it. We may need additional information to verify that your edit is accurate. It may take some time for us to gather that information and for fellow Local Guides to use the Check the facts feature on Google Maps to confirm the information you shared is correct.

 

If your edit is Not Applied, that means we were unable to confidently verify the information you shared at this time.

 

We hope this doesn’t discourage you from being an active Local Guide. We appreciate all of your efforts to help make the world easier to navigate for millions of people around the world.

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ChristineBrandon
Google Moderator

Hello @MgTT,

 

Thank you for reaching out. I would like to inform you that your question has been answered already in this topic - Why is my edit status Pending or Not Applied? By the way I am going to merge your post with it. Feel free to check it out. 

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Level 5

Good morning,

 

I have really enjoyed using Contribute to help others know what experience I have had at various places, but I can't use it at the moment as I get told that "Your Google Account is missing your name. To continue, take 10 seconds to add a name" I have a name on my Google Account. Could you please let me know how I can fix this?

 

Kind regards,

 

Michelle

Former Google Contributor

Hi @Dipen72,

 

I just want to let you know that every edit submitted to Google Maps is either reviewed by an automated systems, local operators, or both, to ensure changes follow our guidelines.

 

I'm moving your post to this topic Why is my edit status Pending or Not Applied? Please feel free to check it out for more information.

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Level 4
  1. I added some place on Google Maps.but it doesn' showing in map....why?
Connect Moderator

Hello @Tipusultaan, you often need to wait up to 24 hours before the place you have added actually shows up.

Check out LetsGuide Podcast | #LGCTM | Please always @Mention me so I see your reply

Hi @Tipusultaan 

It's a common problem some  addition of new place takes time and many of  takes nearly one month to successfully publish in Google maps. 

So you can add more places and after someday they will approved by Google.

Just chill, relax!

Love it 😊 

Level 8

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Level 9

Good news .

SKPattnaik
Level 7

Do we have local moderators for Perth Australia, the most remote capital city in the world? 

 

Also, I've been asking several times to see if I can get my points from my other account pooled under this one account, but have not had a reply. Who should I tap to get a definitive answer? 

Level 3

Hi All

 

Wonder can you help! I have a contact whom I am assisting and there My business listing as it has been removed by moderators. 

 

The business sells online like most but also sells locally from her premises with customers coming to her premises/home to collect and try on outfits. 

 

I do agree with Google policies but the Google agent is not convinced or there is a break down in communication may be.

 

Obviously, the home/premises does not have signage as it is a home.

 

Any advice? The agent has now closed the ticket by the looks of it

Former Google Contributor

Hi @NeilW,

 

I am not sure I understand what is your question about?

 

If its in regards to Google My Businees, I suggest you post your queries there - The Official Google My Business Community

Please consider reading this post before sending me a Private Message - Private Messages and Google Moderators
Level 5

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Level 10

I have been adding new places to Google Maps for  4 years  and have Level 10 status.  I  have recently come up with a problem though which hasn't occurred before.

Churches in my area of the UK have been around a long time  - many over 500 years and are highly visible on Google  Maps satellite mode.    Not all of them have been identified on Google and hence I have been updating when I find one.

 

In the last  few months I have tried to add three churches

St Peters Church, Brumstead, Norfolk, UK
Christ Church, Fulmodeston, Norfolk, UK
St Peter and St Paul Church, Tunstall, UK
to Google.  
I have added a complete set of details - address, postcode, Location applied on Maps, website, sometimes phone number.  Furthermore I have been physically present at the location when adding  them on my GPS enabled Android phone.

Google Maps however has returned these as 'Not Applied - Place creation'

The algorithm is rejecting them for some reason - any clues from a Google representative perhaps.

Paul, Norfolk, UK
Level 8

It's a great information thanks for sharing very helpful @DeniGu

Bengaluru Local Guide
Level 9

That's really great information.Thank you @DeniGu for this helpful article it makes sense to me because it happened once with me when I was aditting in a Casino.

 

Regards:

 

Safdar Rai 

Level 8

It's a great information thanks for sharing very helpful @DeniGu

Level 10

Hi @DeniGu संपादन का कार्य समय एवं लगन से किया जाए यह बेहतर रहेगा। कई बार मैप्स में मैं भी कंफ्यूज हो जाता हूं। एक कंपलीट पोस्ट बनाना बेहतर रहेगा। जानकारी के लिए धन्यवाद।

Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi, @DeniGu

Thank you so much for this post 

I am facing this situation recently I added a company that sells leather chemical and was not on Map it has three regional offices with same name but different locations address two of company addresses was approved on map but one in pending even the address is correct sometime place take much time to create 

Level 8

This article really educates local guides who are proactively on Google Maps
thank you for the enlightenment .

Level 10

@DeniGu@ErmesT

I ran into an issue with my edited and added places list. It has been persistent in the last two weeks.

I can not scroll down the list to the very bottom anymore. The loading sign keeps turning but nothing else works anymore. Also if I add places the system performance on my PC goes down until unusable and I am getting graphics errors on my map screen.

Could someone from Google please check? I am quite certain it is not related to the OS (Win10) or system (i5) that I am using but seems that I hit some limitation on the maximum of edits in maps. Thank you.

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Level 8

thanks for your attention

Level 8

Sometimes we edit places same exists or two people edit same place same time. Sometimes our edit not meet there T&C

Level 7

@BoydK


I agree with all of the points you have made 100% and am sorry to see that you have been given the usual line in excuses and canned responses from a number of sources.

The continent of Africa is the second largest in the world and if the current automated system is incapable of making adjustments for its non-street address locations than there is something needs to be done to address that issue otherwise it could be viewed as discriminatory.

Having said that some of the places I have been able to add did not have street addresses (such as a recent urban nature reserve outside of London) and yet the system allowed me to add it using the Map Locator widget and it was then marked as "Unnamed Road".

I enclose a screenshot from Google Maps as evidence of this process.

Most of the official advice does not to have changed much since this time last year and so perhaps some of it is already out-of-date.

If that same level of functionality is not available in Africa then it really  should be by now.

Unnamed_Road_site.png

 


■ "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes ?" ■ "Who watches the watchers ?" ■ the satirical poet, Juvenal ■ 1st century Rome ■
Level 10

 @Vee_Ru Thank you for your comment, but this is not my issue here. As described above the maps app gets very very slow and I am not able to scroll down my previous edits, as it stops loading the next page in that frame. So it is a software related issue not a problem with approval.

Sorry did not find a thread that was more appropriate to my problem than this one here.

Connect Moderator

Hi @SuzanneBozz

Let me try to understand: you do not have an Issue related to the edit himself, (all your last edit are approved, I see, so congratulation), but to the visualization of your list. Am I correct?

I have tried to replicate the situation (I am on windows 7, my browser is Chrome, updated a few days ago) and everything is working fine on my side. Some question for you:

  • Which kind of web browser are you using?
  • Do you have the same issue with the app?
  • Have you tried to delete cookies and to clear the cache?
  • Do you have any issue in navigation in other website? (I mean, is the connection good?)

Ermes

Level 3

I'm trying to fix the map location of Curry Club, an Indian restaurant in the Isle of Man.  Google maps thinks it's in Scotland, which is about 100 miles away.

 

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This is probably because it incorrectly contains "Moffat" in the address. I tried to edit the address and the map location, but annoyingly my edit keeps being rejected with "NOT APPLIED".

 

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Is there anything I can do to fix this? 

 

This kind of bug in Google Maps is harming the Isle of Man's economy.

Anonymous
Not applicable

Zašto neke lokacije i prijedlozi koje unesem u Google maps nisu primjenjive a sve je točno označeno kao i sama lokacija putem GPS i također dodane fotografije

Level 5

I have repeatedly submitted a name change for my (former) local takeaway food shop on behalf of my friend (the owner) 

the current listing gives her correct address and phone, etc. 

i have posted her business card showing correct details but on a few occasions the name has been reverted to the old listing. And is currently wrong. Help appreciated as she is getting upset. Owner is a typical small business operator who is too busy to participate and learn how to claim her business, and asked me to do it. 

 

Google Moderator

Hello @Anonymous,

Welcome to Connect and nice to meet you.

 

Please excuse my reply in English. I would like to inform you that your question has been answered already in this topic Why is my edit status “Pending” or “Not Applied”?. Feel free to check it out.

 

I also moved your post to there treat. 

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Anonymous
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Thanks for your helpful answer!

Borna

Google Moderator

Hey @Anonymous,

 

You are welcome. Just as a reminder, don't forget when responding to others make sure to tag them (by writing @ before their names) in a post so they can receive notifications that you are communicating with them. Let me know if you have any other more specific questions.

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Level 8

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Level 8

@ Annie healthy 

 

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Level 7

Hi , I Understand Your Problem .

 

It Happens With Me Sometimes . 

 

To Approve Your Edits You Have To Make Sure That You Are Posting Correct Information About That Place .

 

If It Still Don't Approve Then Wait For Sometime .

 

And If You See Not Applied , That Means Your Edits Are Somewhere Wrong Or Not Reviewed properly ..

Level 3

I have had edits stuck on "Pending" for weeks now. This includes incorrectly named roads, and opening times for places which aren't actually accessible to the public.

 

Most annoyingly, my town name is missing from Maps. I have submitted the fact this change about five times now, and I first did this several months ago. It's completely unacceptable that Google is allowed to dictate which places do and do not deserve to exist! 

 

Moreover, the only way for me to draw a box around the area and state the fact that it was a town was to send the info via "my opinions about google maps". 

This information is easily verifiable by simply going on street view and reading the town sign! Not only is it a different town to the one next to it, but it is also in a different county! Would someone from Google please email me about this because I am getting really sick of being asked to contribute and then having my contributions ignored.

Connect Moderator
Level 3

@ErmesT Your link is out of date. There is no "edit the map" option anymore, and there hasn't been for quite some time.


There is no way to add a missing town name. You can add a street name or a business/place name - however, as I mentioned, I have done this with a road and it has so far been ignored (for several weeks now). I am well aware of the page you linked to. I have tried to submit edits in multiple ways and they are still being ignored.

Google needs to change their definition of "place" (which currently means landmark or business) or add an option to change/suggest edits to town names. I am not the only one experiencing this, as many people in smaller towns have found that the name isn't there. It appears on the OS maps, so it should also appear on Maps.

It would be helpful to be able to draw around an area and submit an edit. You can do this via "my opinions about google maps" but I assume this goes to a different team, more concernt with user interface/experience than the contents of the map.

Connect Moderator

In fact I never said "edit the map" in my reply @ewba.

With the dismission of map maker, the only option that we have is the procedure indicated in the link that I gave to you. Have you read it? Of course the procedure thake time, as the report have to go through a verification procedure, and there are more than 50 millions of local guides in the world, so the cue is quite long.

 

 

Level 3

@ErmesTI have read it, and in fact I don't think you've read what I want to do. There is nothing in that procedure to allow me to submit a town name change/addition. I assumed you mean the "edit the map" option because that is the only thing mentioned on that link which would allow me to do this. Which of course, does not exist anymore. The only options are:

  • Incorrect road names
  • Wrong info about one-way and two-way roads
  • Incorrectly drawn road
  • Road closures
  • A road on the map doesn't exist
  • Missing roads
  • Wrong addresses or marker locations

None of these covers adding a missing town name.

 

Most edits take a few days in my experience, and one I submitted earlier today was published within an hour. Presumably because it was verified automatically rather than manually. The *queue will be long I'm sure, but since most edits will be very simple, and not require manual verification, I don't think several months (and counting) is reasonable. 

Connect Moderator
Level 8

Good morning

 

For some reason all my contributions, from simple phone changes, opening hours, name, place, or request to delete in duplicate or because it does not exist, until adding new sites, appears as NOT APPLY immediately.

I read in another post that it is an algorithm that decides based on criteria that are not known to the administrators or those who manage the system.

 

That generates a lot of frustration, especially with Local Guides who have been working in their community for years to improve the user experience in google maps.

I would like to know why this is happening and what can be done to solve it.

Thank you very much

Level 9

Hello @rodvela

 

"NOT APPLIED" is a very common, it's happens with many of us. It's happen when google unable to verify your uploaded information at that time. It could be other reasons like may be your input was not correct or someone already add/edit the place but still pending (waiting for approve). For details you can read the article

Level 9

Hello @ewba

You can't add your Town name by yourself because this is polygon features. Adding or Editing a polygon feature is now disable on google maps. You can Send feedback to google developers adding/correcting polygon features; the google developers will check your issue, and this process will take a bit long time to update.

Level 8

Hi @AbdullahAM

 

Thanks for your answer. My concern is that my last 20 or so contributions were marked as NO APPLICABLE almost immediately and those include changes, additions, deletion of places an even name corrections. 

 

It would be a great coincidence that there were other changes pending on every single place I made a contribution. 

 

I already read that article and I don’t see the answers for my problem. 

 

Kind regards

Level 9

Yo también conozco un campo que no aparece en el mapa y me gustaría poder agregarlo y agregar sus calles que tampoco están en el mapa.  

Adisional a eso, deseo que se corrija un error en varias calles de mi pueblo natal.  Resulta que hay varias calles que en el mapa se interrumpen desde una esquina hasta la siguiente y luego continuan pero en la realidad no existe interrupción de dichas calles.  Son 4 calles paralelas consecutivas las que presentan el error.  Adjunto a este mensaje les envío una imagen del mapa sobre la cual dibujé lineas rojas que representan los tramos de calles faltantes en el mapa.  

Estuve buscando alguna opción que me permita agregar calles faltantes en la aplicación pero no encontré como hacerlo. 

 

Las líneas rojas representan los tramos de calles que faltan en el mapa.Las líneas rojas representan los tramos de calles que faltan en el mapa.

Level 4

My adding place is approved. But it till not showing publically. One month going on. What's the problem is ? 

 Please , solved my problem. My address is given below

[HOME ADDRESS REMOVED]

 

I'm sorry I have no idea how to work this but I need help with my points I've lost over a thousand just disappeared all my posts everything I don't understand it was never anything bad just straight honest I work really hard for it

Level 1

PPS Motors Volkswagen Bangalore

Hi,I am trying to edit the Number(for the above mentioned place) as per my managements requirement and I am not able to edit.It says not applied for some reason.Any help would be appreciated.