Please do not try to force inappropriate items onto the map by using incorrect categories. Google does place some trust in the users, if they end up publishing your attempt you should then set it up for deletion.
Not trying to force inappropriate items, I will stick with only categories listed/allowed. I guess maybe there should be a section that we can have a wish list of some sort for google map. My thought was to be a virtual guide on some of these trails we have here in Jasper.
Google does provide the ability to create custom maps via various different ways to accomplish such goals.
But the base map, being the map used by all, does have to have restrictions on it.
Your idea is frequently requested, but it is impractical when you think about it. The map as way to much information on it for it to all display at once, so what appears is dynamically changed based on who is using the map and what they are currently searching. Pictures can currently be attached to POIs that appear, specifically they can be attached to the POIs in the establishment subset of the categories. In that way if I search "Space Needle" then among the information presented on the side are photos that people have contributed.
But if there is no POI at the location where you want to add a photo, what should then be done? How would the photo be hidden from view until the right search terms for that photo were entered? Keep in mind that popular places would quickly have thousands of photos contributed, you can simply display them all if someone searches "photos". The map would quickly become cluttered and useless if you let people add POIs with descriptive names that serve no purpose other than to attach a photo.
My main two hobbies are photography and mapping, so I do enjoy combining the two; but I don't see how adding photos to any place desired could do anything but lessen the quality of the base map.
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