I do have some light criteria for inclusion in the map. it needs to have a wikipedia article to link to and there needs to be something interesting that was there other than a retaining wall or something, although if the retaining wall is all thats left of something that was really impressive at the time than i will include it. Generally any UNESCO site gets included except the food and culture oriented ones not because I don't think they are important its just that the Google My maps as is just can't handle that variety of info and keep it decently organized.
if you see something missing or wrong and its one of your favorite places I will go ahead and add if theres a wikipedia article.
I probably have a thousand hrs or so in it at this point. I do most of the work in the winter when there's not much to do outside. Its not particularily tedious given how much I rely on wikipedia to do the heavy lifting. It has taken some time to figure out how to use the limited tools within Google Maps like icons, colors, layers to fit what I want but I think i got things pretty well squeezed in there and I'm kinda glad Google my Maps is limited so I can't really change my mind anymore.
this winter I'm looking at working on the maps boundries for each layer. pretty much i just watch Youtube videos and then link to sources on wikipedia. One smaller task I'm looking at is to move all the National Musuems to the PreClassical era because most countries put their oldest archelogical findings there and often have some illustrations and other info about those civilizations.
I'm not trying to have an exhaustive resource of European History, right now there is about 8000 places listed, I figure in the end it will be 12k to 15k although for cities I'd like to mostly mark neighborhoods on the map with links to important individual buildings.