My motivation as a Local Guide is to make Buenos Aires Map the most accurate to reality as I could. This motivation started when I moved here 5 years ago, I was new to the city, I also was living in one of the oldest neighborhood in town, San Telmo.
This is a part of the town that come to live mostly on Sundays, with the largest street fair, with a market that is only open 4 days during the morning, with a grocery traveling fair only on Saturday morning, with a guy who sales great orange juice but has no physical store (he is just standing in the same corner with his trolley). This neighborhood was unpredictable and fantastic at the same time. You can come to San Telmo and miss the most of it if you don’t have the right information.
This is where my motivation started. I started adding mostly stores that were not there, like grocery stores, supermarkets, shoes repair services, etc. I wanted myself to be able to look for “supermarket” and see the actual 3 supermarket I had around me, I wanted to reflect the reality.
Then the need came more as a citizen of Buenos Aires. Soon after I moved the government put public bike station to rent everywhere, but the map of the app to find them was awful and crashed often. I was annoying and I wanted to have it all together in google Maps, so I decided to download the excel of +100 bike station and start adding it to the map.
Recently Google Maps started asking me about how much people is in the public transport and I love responding that, because I believe soon I will get that information back and be super useful before taking any transportation. I feel the most I give to google maps, the most it gave me back. At least all the things I added or edit then I found myself using it, but as well
Soon after that the make possible to load online the public transport card but you needed to the last step in some special station of the city. The map of this station was in the government page, same as before I wanted to have all in one place, so I added them to google maps.
As well as that as a foodie in a country with high inflation, you really never know how much you are going to pay until you are eating the dessert. So I always try to keep update menu photos or price relation, as well as open hours.
I am blogger as well and I used many times the function of “My maps” to share specifics spots or a specific route. I also organize the only startup crawl in Buenos Aires, and not only to organize it but also for the participants I create a lot of My Maps with the startup location.
Check one of my favorite maps here