2022
A lot of my edits are being rejected. Most of my edits are for places near my residential place. I've been doing edits for years now and i'm now level 6. It was fun doing edits. Its such a fullfillment when edits are published. But a lot of my edits are being rejected recently and its very disappointing and I'm beginning to lose motivation. Common guys, I understand that you can be strict for new mappers, but not for those who have been doing editing maps for a long time.
This advice doesn't actually help - I keep trying to add a new local business, "My Closet Consignment" which opened last week in my city (https://www.facebook.com/myclosetconsignment/) - I like to add new businesses right away, to give them that extra leg up! I added it to the map two days after it opened without going in (I'd been to that strip mall before but not since before it opened), and it was rejected. Ok, fine, I must need to visit the store. I went, turned on my location services, took exterior shots (panned back far enough to show what the neighboring businesses were), looked at everything inside, bought a wallet, chatted with the staff, took a shot with them in their staff t-shirts with their big logo on the front alongside the owner. Went home and added it to the map again - rejected. But I figured that this time, it was because I'd forgotten to add the address (I'd just dropped the pin and didn't realize it didn't record the address automatically that way). Fine. Third time's the charm, right? So this time I roll out all the stops, it's flawless - name, pin in the precise spot on the strip mall, address with unit number and postal code, hours, official website (their Facebook page), specific opening date (Sep. 6, 2017), ten photos I took there with location services set. REJECTED. I added it again this morning, REJECTED AGAIN. Meanwhile, they accepted my addition of "The Back 6", the new restaurant in the golf club near my office, despite my never having set foot in it before (just added it based on info from their website).
I live in a small Canadian city with a tiny group of Google Guides. I'm a Level 7, I've lived here all my life and I know the place like the back of my hand. I have an excellent mental map, often give directions to lost tourists (did that just yesterday, as a matter of fact). I know what's going on in this city, what all the new businesses are and add many of them right from the get-go. My photos have gotten 450,000 views. I've accepted some of the other rejections, despite them also being unfounded (the decision to reject the edit being made by someone who obviously knows less about the place in question than I do), but this one really sticks in my craw. Is there any way to appeal these rejections? Do I have to take a video of myself there? I don't understand what else I can do.
I'm adding some of the pictures I took for proof, along with a screencap of some of my edits - note that the one at the bottom of the map, in Saint John (CBCL Limited), not only did I take their address change over the phone at my office as part of my job, but I went to that office for a meeting 2 - 3 weeks ago. I was at the address I suggested. So whoever rejected it can bite me.
