The most interesting thing I ever did when I was a local guide was when I added or the reviews I got positive responses from other people who got happy and helped from what I did.
I started to add places on Google Maps when I moved to a new place for college, by adding places that didn’t yet exist on Google Maps, I felt helped and helped others with what I was doing, at that time I started to add new places, giving review to share the joy and help other people. Helping people is not only adding a new place for me, sometimes I check the facts on some place did the place closed or doesn’t show up correctly on google maps because today everyone using google maps to go everywhere, to check review about new places, to helping them finding something on the shop without taking so much times to find the shop.
The place I usually add is a restaurants or coffeeshops because I used to go around looking for small coffeeshops that are not too well known even though they serve the best coffee so I help introduce to others that there is a coffeeshop or a good place to eat here, with my usual experience adding a new place on google maps, my friend offered me to help him add his coffeeshop on google maps and promote it to people and it turns out that it really helped my friend in his coffeeshop business now is starting to get crowded and has positive reviews on google maps.
One time that made me sure I would still help others become a local guide was when I added a photo somewhere and got a very positive response, more than hundreds of thousands of people saw the photo I added, at that time I was very happy and did not think that what I did was apparently seen by many people, something that I felt was ordinary turned out to be something extraordinary for others.
And what makes me proud is that when Google responds well to what I do, I get the chance to get a pair of socks from local guides that are very cute, even though it took a long time because they were sent from the UK or US I don’t remember where exactly, yeah waiting is what I usually do like waiting her respond to my feelings hahaha
Sometimes a small thing and sounds ridiculous can help many people without us knowing. Thank you Google for helping me to help others. I always remember to dream big and start small.