Yes but even the photo I shown has changed. The bin and the wall isn’t there. Just the mural and the shop
If it’s just the road, that doesn’t help place it. We don’t need to have an updated Street View in order to place a nomination in the area. This is what is noted in thePhoto Guidelines for supporting photos:
For supporting photographs, submit a photo that includes the object. The photo should allow the reviewers to confirm the location of the object by the surrounding recognizable features that can be spotted on satellite view or similar.
Again, it doesn’t have to be on Street View, but we need to be able to see some of the surronding area that is, such as the building facade/window/door. Once I was able to find the photo from the artist showing the shop’s facade, I was able to place the mural without an updated Street View, and reviewers should have been able to as well.
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Alternatively linking to thr site where you found the mural would help a future submission or appeal too! But I agree that supporting pictures should show the nomination and more of the surroundings ie other shops etc
This is also included in the help center for Reviewing Nominations:
Note: At times, you may not be able to view the Wayspot nomination in maps or street views if the real-world location of the nomination is inside a park or under a tree. For these cases, use your best judgment to decide whether the nomination could exist at the real-world location. You can use the submission photo and look for clues in the background to help you decide.
If you just showed the road, I can understand why the mural couldn’t be located by reviewers and the appeals team.
That is a bad supporting photo, as the doesn’t have the mural in it. Take this as a lesson to make sure that your supporting photos show the POI and surrounding area, not just the surrounding area.
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It looks like you turned around and took a picture facing away from the mural maybe? That’ll be why people cant place it in the location and rejected it
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Some of my photos have gone through with the same. Would u rather I did the cars
Care are fine in supporting photos. License plates cannot be in main photos.
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Your supporting photo needs to include the point of interest in the nomination. Always. Every nomination. If I got a photo with weird borders to review and a supporting photo that did not show it in its real world place, I would suspect it is a fake nomination. I am not saying that this is a fake, but am explaining what it looks like.
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Unfortunately it’s a very busy road so I had to go it quickly or cars would be in it
this does not matter for the supporting photo. you can also take the photo from those sidewalks you show across the street and zoom in.
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Consider taking it from across the road, on the other side. You could also take it from a different angle on the same sidewalk.
As I said beside it is a busy road or the church or the fountain at the edge they still get rejected
The point here is that the supporting photo has to include the POI and the surrounding area, not just the surrounding area. Without the POI in the supporting photo, it may be hard for reviewers and the appeals team to locate.
I just nominated a mural earlier this week along a busy road. I did have to wait a bit until there were no cars coming through to get a good main photo, as I took it from across the street, and I really didn’t care if there were any cars in the supporting, just that one of the nearby businesses was included, since it can be seen on satellite/Street View.
We have told you that the original photo looks suspicious, and that the supporting photo should include the mural, and I don’t know any other way to say this. Use this information or don’t. I don’t think we can say it any other way.
Here is an example of one of my nominations with a supporting picture that shows the nomination but also surrounding buildings and road, and yes, cars. It was accepted.
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My example is similar. The main photo is of the main entrance of the cafe, and the supporting photo was taken from across the parking lot and includes cars, but it also includes the main entrance.
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Some of us answering your questions are reviewers in the U.K. so we know what it’s like to take photos in streets like this and are used to seeing cars in the supporting photo.
At the moment it is getting rejected as reviewers can’t see it is there.
Why not try what we are suggesting? The worst that can happen is it gets rejected but now you have something solid to appeal with.
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