Feedback is everything for me. Liked app? Rate it in online store! Watched interesting film in the cimena? Recommend it to friends! Enjoyed dinner in new restaurant in your area? Tell everyone about it using Google Maps!
Google Maps now is something more than just cartography service. It’s a community where users from all over the world may share their thoughts about places, post photos and join local groups to create events (eg @PaulPavlinovich 's 36 walk) and realize their potential.
As for me Google Maps is not just app on my iPhone. It’s a valuable community with friendly face. Every Google Maps user is a part of this friendly face as you and me. And I’m proud to be a part of affable community like this. I joined to Local Guides program in the end of 2015th and I’m still interested in growing it especially in my country (Russia) and hometown (Saint Petersburg).
Reviews, photos, edits, exchange of experience inside our Russian community - this is my lifestyle. Thoughts that my reviews is still useful for travelers around the world will warm my soul in old age 
There are two things I’m proud of:
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My friends always may count on me. Moreover they always ask me to suggest places where they should go for special date or for unique impressions.
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I helped and still helping people to join Local Guides program. I’m 100% sure that one of them is active community member and using this forum right now. He visited LG Summit last year and got lots of friends inside this community as it happened with me in 2016 and 2017. His name is @Stphn . I’m happy that I inspired him to do what he do. This is the most pleasant moment.
I’d like to leave here links for my past applications just to keep it all in one place:
2016: there were only videos. Forum didn’t exist yet.
2017: Alexander Lapin For LG Summit 2017