As I have said many times, for me numbers are often just a detail, however there are figures that I sometimes like to celebrate, especially for their symbolic value.
This is the case of the 50000+ roads added by me in Maps (50200, to be precise).
Caption: A collage of photos: on the left, three Local Guides cross the city of San Francisco (CA) on bicycles carrying orange balloons with the Local Guides logo. On the right, a screenshot of the Road Editor with a lot of newly added roads, and the text 50000 to represent to 50k roads added by me in Google Maps
It’s incredible that this happens in the same week that we celebrate achieving an incredible result. During a campaign created by @SholaIB ,100,000 roads were added to Google Maps in less than three months. We thought we could do it in six months, but we did it in less than half the time.
I’m not alone in this. There are Local Guides like @Lukas_1 who will probably reach the same figure in a few days, or like @MarcoDavoli , who will do it in just a few months.
To celebrate this incredible moment I wanted to write a post that I hope will help you, if you aren’t already doing so, join the community in adding roads to Google Maps: Connecting People - Roads in Google Maps
Congrats @ErmesT ! What an awesome accomplishment. This sincerely demonstrates your hard work, dedication, and commitment to make your community and beyond a better place. Well done!
Bravo !!! This is a great record although it might not be long before others will be jumping up to that same height.
Congratulations man we are super proud and happy for you.
I remember your first posts on roads. We never imagined that adding roads will become this popular and easy. The approval was quite slow and it was only on mobile etc. I remember we wondered will we ever get 4 digits(A thousand) imagined you have tens of thousands on your profile now. It’s quite amazing !!!
Special thank you and congratulations to our **TRAC team **for the recent 100k approved roads on Google maps. We are getting extraordinary motivation and inspiration to add roads from each other on that group. We commend the Google team too for all the technical help they render to make adding roads what it is today and now.
@Lukas_1 is the closest to you in this and maybe @MarcoDavoli a super energetic colleague and statistician. Some of us might join you all later in that club @JustJake@PrasadVR@Designer_Biswajit etc. Kudos to you all for this amazing efforts on roads.
Вы дзіўны чалавек, вельмі шмат зрабілі і робіце звышкарыснага для капрызных карыстальнікаў Google maps і Local Guides Connect. Вельмі шкада, што на паказальніках дарог не будзе надпісу з вашым імем і згадкай пра тое, што гэта менавіта Вы здабылі дарогу на Google maps!
Huge congratulations @ErmesT ! Adding 50,000 new roads is an incredible achievement, it’s very impressive and inspiring. You are a role model, your posts and meet-ups motivated so many Local Guides. The cover photo is looking great. Thank you @SholaIB for your kind words in your comments.
What a huge milestone, @ErmesT . Thank you for all of your tireless work hunting and drawing to make Maps more complete. Congratulations on being the first of us to cross over to 50k. Your guidance created a movement here, Sir (all the puns intended ).
Thank you so much @Scheria , but you are doing much better than me. It took six month to me to add my first 1000 roads, and you did it in no time. I know soon I will ha to watch behind me to see you arriving.
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