It was rejected

Your Map’s status reads ✗ Rejected and its visibility is back to Private. Nothing is lost: the Map is intact, editable, and yours, and resubmitting is one button once you have fixed the cause.

Read the notes first

A rejection comes with ⚠️ Rejection Notes on the Map’s own panel, in the reviewer’s own words. That is the actual reason, and it is more specific than anything this page can guess. Everything below is the common causes, for when the notes are terse.

The four common causes

1. Not enough Anchor Points, or bad calibration. Three is the minimum and a high error figure is visible to the reviewer. If the notes mention accuracy, the fix is read the accuracy heat map — usually one anchor entered wrongly rather than a bad Map.

2. The image is not yours to publish. A venue’s official map, a commercial piste map, a copyrighted illustration. Nothing about the Map is wrong except the right to publish that picture. The fix is a different image — one you took, one the venue has given you permission for, or one that is openly licensed — and saying so in Image Source.

3. It is not a venue. A test upload, a screenshot, a photograph of something that is not a place, or a Map with no Areas and no description. The catalog is a list of venues people can turn up at.

4. Area names or the description are not suitable for a public listing. These are reader-facing copy on a public surface. Private jokes, placeholder text and anything a stranger would find offensive are all read as such.

Fix it and resubmit

1. Make the change. The Map is editable again, so this is an ordinary edit rather than a new Map Version.
2. Use 🔄 Resubmit for Approval.
3. It goes back to Pending and is reviewed again.

There is no limit on resubmissions and no penalty for having been rejected once.

If you disagree with the reason

Rejection is a judgement by a person, so it can be wrong, and the way to say so is to reply rather than to resubmit unchanged — resubmitting the same Map gets the same answer. Contact is the way in, and it is worth naming the Map and quoting the note you are disputing.

Meanwhile, you can still use it

A rejected Map is Private, which means it works exactly as a private Map does — including for everybody who shares a Group with you. If the reason you were publishing was so your own friends could use it at the weekend, you do not need approval at all: let your Group use an unpublished map.

Rejected is not delisted

Two different things, and they read similarly on the panel:

• Rejected — it never became public. Nobody installed it, nothing to recover.
• Delisted — it was public and was taken out of the catalog, so there are installers who are now affected. That is my map was delisted.