Registration to the Google campus in San Francisco, October 2020
Since I graduated as a professor of geography in 1962 in Namur, Belgium, I have been able to travel to many countries on all continents.
First in Africa, because I taught there for 4 years in Kinshasa (DRC). From there, I visited the Congo and its neighboring countries, as well as the south of the continent and the north.
Since 1966, I have taught in Montreal (Canada) for 33 years. During my vacation, I visited the regions of Quebec, Canada and the United States. I have also traveled to Europe, Asia, Russia and Central and South America.
In 1999, I retired as a teacher and visited several European countries on several occasions. The two most distant trips date from 2019 to the countries of the Persian Gulf and Oceania.
After returning from all these trips, I have kept memories in slide and video montages.
For 15 years, the arrival of digital devices has allowed me to create digital montages easily transferable to the Google Maps account. This is where I signed up as a local google guide. I was surprised by the number of visitors to my account and after 3 years, I reached level 7.
The role of Google maps is essential in today’s world that any internet user can discover from their home. It changes the culture of people to an increasingly wider world. The Earth becomes a village which brings together by maps, places to discover, sites to want to visit and people to meet in all corners of the Earth.
This openness of people of all ages to the world should lead to peace and happiness to be shared while respecting individual differences.
Edmond Pauly, March 30, 2020