I am a local guide mostly for photography. I love taking pictures while traveling, helping other people, and challenging myself. However, many times I find myself spending too much time posting the photos to the map. Maps seems to be accurate (or at least more accurate) when you are posting the pictures close to where they were taken, but as you move away, the location is not detected correctly. That means for me that I have to find this by hand in the map, and upload the pictures directly to the place (this v.s. the general “add picture” interface.) This takes a lof time to do. I travel a lot, and move many miles (sometimes hundreds) per day. There is also tbe storage considerations. I do take a lot of pictures with my phone, even more when I am uploading them to maps. My phone’s memore fills, so I have to dump to external storage. It would be nice if google provides some extra storage. I remember a few years ago google sent a reward for 1 year of google 1 free. that is the 100gb plan. I didn’t do it at the time as I thought after a year I would have all this files up there and the offer would expire… In any case, I will probably stop uploading to google maps. It is too much work, and there are no tangible benefits to it. I can still take my picures, send them to my friends, and have more time to enjoy tbe places I am at, rather than spending one hour every day trying to figure out where a picture was taken from 100 miles away.
Adding to it all, the only way to climb the “point ladder” is volume. I find myself taking a lot of dumb pictures inside stores for no other reason than 3 points a picture. In my opinion this represents a lot of work, a lot of time, and really outweighs the personal benefits that I gain, like being aware my surroundings, noticing things around me, doing more exercise, challenge me to go further to take that extra photo for google maps.
