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October 19, 2014

Remove Images From Google Maps Views

If you've added photos to Google Maps Views and you'd like to remove them, Google offers a few options: removing photos from Google Maps Views and Google Maps or deleting photos from all Google products, including Google+. Photos are stored in Google+, not in Google Maps.


Open the photo page in Google Maps Views, click "Remove from Google Maps and Views" and you'll see this confirmation dialog: "Your image will remain in Google+, but will be removed from Google Maps products. This may take up to 24 hours."


If you click the "delete" button instead, your photo is deleted from Google+ and all the Google services that use it.


"When uploading your photos to Google Maps Views, your content will be publicly visible to other users. Geolocated photos that are shared on Google Maps may also be displayed in a variety of Google products and services, such as Google Maps for mobile, Google Earth, Google Search, Google+, Google+ Local, and third party sites using embeddable widgets or the Google Maps API," informs Google.

There are other ways to remove photos from Google Maps Views: make the Google+ album private or uncheck the "Show location data" setting in the album properties.

{ Thanks, Jordan. }

3 comments:

  1. I am working with a hotel and there are a lot of old pictures on the toolbar below in Google maps, and I want to know how can those get deleted, that doesn't has to be with G+, because the previous owner created it, and the current administration can't do anything.

    Thanks

    Victor

    ReplyDelete
  2. I am working with a hotel and there are a lot of old pictures on the toolbar below in Google maps, and I want to know how can those get deleted, that doesn't has to be with G+, because the previous owner created it, and the current administration can't do anything.

    Thanks

    Victor

    ReplyDelete
  3. I added some IKEA photos to Google Maps and now I cannot remove them from my photos on my Android. They are taking up space and need to be removed.

    ReplyDelete

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