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A12b Solution to the Format Prediction Game
A12b Solution to the Format Prediction Game
Please try the quiz itself here before looking at the solutions below. It's more fun and educational that way
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As you can see the store name got left out by the auto-crop to a wider format by Google Maps. You can avoid this by only uploading photos in a wider format. Don't use portrait when shooting for Google Maps!
As you can see the store name got left out by the auto-crop to a wider format by Google Maps. You can avoid this by only uploading photos in a wider format. Don't use portrait when shooting for Google Maps!
This is a wide format image. When it gets auto-cropped to the square the store name survived nicely. This is only the case if the store name is perfectly centered in the wider format. You can read more here.
Again, you can see the store name got left out by the auto-crop to a wider format by Google Maps. You can avoid this by only uploading photos in a wider format. Don't use portrait when shooting for Google Maps!
Again and again: As you can see the store name got left out by the auto-crop to a wider format by Google Maps. You can avoid this by only uploading photos in a wider format. Don't use portrait when shooting for Google Maps!
This one is a bit tricky. The shop name will only be somewhat visible in the wider format. So the correct answer is "NO" since the store name should be intact as mention in the introduction!
Again this emphasizes the need for shooting in landscape mode only.
Almost done: As you can see the store name got left out by the auto-crop to a wider format by Google Maps. You can avoid this by only uploading photos in a wider format. Don't use portrait when shooting for Google Maps!
This is also a tricky case. As you can see uploading a wider format picture did not prevent the store name from getting chopped. You also need to center the store name in the wider format. Find the cropping steps here.
For the last time: As you can see the store name got left out by the auto-crop to a wider format by Google Maps. You can avoid this by only uploading photos in a wider format. Don't use portrait when shooting for Google Maps!
WOW! Even though the uploaded image is in the landscape format, the store name got cut! The reason being that I forgot to observe Framing Rule #3 when taking this shot.
Hopefully, you are now convinced that landscape format is better than portrait when clicking for Google Maps.
Thanks for taking the quiz.
Hit "Suggested next page" to continue to Exceptions to the Framing Rules. Cherish!
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