Google Maps Feedback from Level 8
My Google Maps posts:
Level 8 Local Guide
Google Maps
- Adding a place or a shop within a petrol station
- Finding a parking for the car upon the arrival of the place
- Adding photos without asking you to add description (Food or no Food)
- Not showing up places that didn't actually go it, just passed by and they asked for feedback (rating)
- Not asking for photos to be uploaded to a place if it does contain the faces of the people (privacy)
- The ability to select an alternative route, not the grey line.
- Bondi Skate place, just passed by and the app keeps asking me to review it.
- Answering questions after making a comment.
- The ability to reply to certain comment and to contact the person, more effective than G+;
- Happy to be selected to test the Argument Raliaty but then the phone doesn't support it.
- Use Google Lens app or Machine Learning to suggest options for photos taken and promote options to select from.
- Some places doesn't have a specific location or it is a location inside another location, so there should be an option for that.
- You're popular!
- Petrol Stations fuel updates;
Updated version as doc file in the desktop
Google Maps Feedback:
1. Some places don’t have a specific location or it is a place inside another place, so there should be an option for that. For example, adding a place or a shop within or inside a petrol station. (Photo Attached)
2. Finding a parking for the car upon the arrival to the place. Furthermore, when you are driving and you reach your destination, you will most probably look for a parking to park your car, so free parking as well as paid parking lots must be showed as an option to be selected either approaching to reach the place or before evening starting the trip.
3. Adding photos without asking you to add description especially for restaurants. Moreover, after couple of app updates, whenever a user list a new place, and add photos, the app keep asking the user to add a caption for each photo, which makes the user to skip most of captions, or maybe taking fewer photos.
4. The app should stop showing up places that the user didn't actually go to it, just passed by and they asked for feedback (rating). For instance, if the user passed by a shop, the app will directly promote to the user to rate that particular place even if the user didn’t even enter it. For example, Bondi Skate place, just passed by and the app kept asking me to review it.
5. The app should not ask for photos to be uploaded to the places in the maps if it does contain the faces of the people (privacy), whereby it means the auto photo detection of the photos using the geo data input in them including the A.I scan analyze of the photo, it should avoid photos with faces, or at least blur them. Apart from this, use Google Lens app technology or Machine Learning to suggest options for photos taken and promote options to select from. In this way, we will save some time for the user to type and simply select.
6. The ability to select an alternative route, not the grey line. Normally, while driving the app will suggest using a different route which is faster to reach to the exact destination, but sometimes it is better to use longer distance with less traffic and choose it as the default route in case it was a routine trip. One more thing to mention especially for daily trips to work is a preview on the best times that the driver will have a smooth less congestion in the traffic.
7. Answering questions after making a comment. Sometimes, if you review a place, and if people kept asking questions about it, you should have the option to shut down the notifications on that specific place.
8. The ability to select which photos to appear in first in a place and to delete the photos that are not related to the place instead of just reporting them (Level 7+)
9. Happy to be selected to test the Argument Reality but then the phone doesn't support it, which was weird, since AR apps worked fine in the phone.
10. You're popular! For this notification it is not necessary. Because once the user opens it, it moves the user to the photos uploading section. I know that you want users to use the app most of the time, but by doing so you will make users to start spamming by uploading irrelevant photos just to get points or to level up. (Photo Attached)
11. Using bikes then train then bikes to reach a destination instead of by foot then train. This must be done; it will encourage more people to shift to bikes. (Photo Attached)
06/09/2018
Hi GMTeam,
Yes, you do want the user to provide feedback about places he or she does visit, but it won't be possible to provide feedback for searching for a place that you haven't even been there. For example, searching about an area to camp over the weekend, and the didn't go there for whatever reason, the app should not promote suggestions to rate the place that was only searched for, but not actually been there.
Regarding adding photos, the idea of using the Geolocation to identify the photos are good, but you gotta also use A.I to identify the objects, before adding a photo of my bike into Lidcombe train station!. (It won't help any user). Furthermore, after adding photos for a place especially a restaurant, allow photos to appear in a grid view in order to select which one of them are food and then rename it and other which not a menu food.
That was a fast feedback,
Thanks,
Medo Hamdani
Google Maps Beta
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The idea:
Alarming truck drivers and any other vehicle that the height of it is going to be more than a bridge ahead. For example, the user will select which vehicle he/she is driving and input the height, therefore the A.I will calculate and choose the roads that will allow the user to drive safely without ramming the truck surface with the bridge. Another idea that might be implemented in Sydney, Australia is the school zone alarming which will notify the driver before reaching the school zone and it the notification will keep beeping (Optional) till the driver is already outside the school zone.
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Date: 29/01/2020
M.Taher Hamdani
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