This post is to talk about my experience making literally history on Google Maps. Don’t you believe me? Just keep reading.
When I just discovered Google Maps, it wasn’t to much stunning for me, cause I’ve already known Google Earth and Google Maps looked like its basic version for me, but then, something happened. I don’t really remember how I become a Local Guide, I just remember I started making reviews around 2013, a year in which, al least here in Mexico, everyone was making reviews in Foursquare. My philosophy was simple, if you use Google Maps to find an address, why don’t use the same platform to make a review or look for someone else’s reviews? So, as I love to have everything integrated, I started making reviews.
I don’t remember exactly when, but I remember to see the invitation to join to the Local Guides Community and I felt very special because here in my city there was not to much people on this community. I continued making reviews in a regular basis, until I moved to Mexico city. When living there I starting to use a bike, and I needed to know which were the safest streets to move around by using a bike, so I look on Google Maps and I found I can see bike paths, so I wondered “does this information exists for Puebla” (a smaller city), and I found that there was not too much information so I started clicking buttons and menus on Google Maps till I found that I was able to report those bike paths, and I started to do it cause, well, someone has to do it, and I’m a little bit nerd about it.
Currently I can be pleased that most of the bike paths on Puebla City are there thanks to me, and I think that this is a small contribution I can make to my home city and I’m excited about which things we could make on Google Maps in the future.
If you want to report a Bike Path, you can see how to do it by seeing these videos:
How to add a Bike Path on a Desktop Device:
How to add a Bike Path on a Mobile Device:
