It’s no secret that Local Guides have an impact in the world. By sharing your knowledge and contributing to Google Maps, you are helping millions of people every day. But did you know that you are also making the world a better place?
We are grateful for these and many more Local Heroes among our global community. You truly are a great inspiration for our team and for fellow creators.
The Local Guides team is also very passionate about trying to do good in the world and making sure that Google Maps is built for everyone. Our vision is to encourage this behaviour in the community by mobilizing Local Guides around the globe to do good in the world both proactively and in times of crisis.
Over the past few years, we’ve run some amazing campaigns to support this cause:
It is our intention to continue on this path and as we are getting into 2019, we’d love to know what causes motivates you. Please share your story with us in the comments below.
Thank you for sharing your post with us. I think it was a great event and everybody enjoy it. Local Guides contributing on google maps and millions of people are using the google maps. I feel very happy as a google local guides.
I didn’t attend this event but after seeing some highlights I really feeling proud @JuanCh . It is really very amazing and great work to just update Google Maps every single day it really impacts a lot to our community I routine life. Thank you for such a wonderful post.
wow ! What an inspirational post for us and I am really happy to part of this wonderful family. I love to share my initiative with you that i arrenage a talk with them about awareness of social media using. I wish google maps and google will encourage us more to do something different for them. Now I focused on social media awareness cause they are child also in rural area if we can’t Guide then they will lost their path.
It’s also worth noting that anyone who is abusing the program/platform is similarly amplified.
One Local Guide reviewed the local Holocaust Museum after a negative experience, and in his 2-star review, made an off-color, appallingly-inappropriate joke about how the museum should have its employees (most of whom are volunteers who lost family in The Holocaust) wear ‘brown shirts.’
I don’t know algorithmically how much weight is given to LGs, but I know until I reported the review, it had a badge conspicuously displayed next to it, and it appeared on the knowledge pane a number of different time I searched for it across several devices.
I encourage everyone to report offensive or off-topic remarks etc, especially by other Local Guides. As much as making good content of one’s own can be beneficial, helping to identify and remove someone else’s terrible content can be just as good for the users.
Making a better world and making Maps better to reflect our world are always in my heart.
This year, HK LocalGuides had been doing Giving Blooding LG meetups - three times in total. @TonyChu can tell us more about the developments and stories.
There is a bigger plan for next year. HK LGs are working with TW LGs to do synchronized GivingBlood days through out 2019. As we should amd we can GivingBlood regularly, once per 4 month is a good target.
We have choosen Jan 26, 2019 for our first meetup date. @HankTu is working to bring more Cities in Taiwan to join.
@JuanCh thanks so much for this recap! It was amazing listening to you and meeting you in person! I absolutely love the video, you guys made a great job! Thanks again for everything you do for us and did for all the attendees at the Connect Live event!
Feel proud after reading this post. i want to share something about my experience how i become local guide what encourage me to be local guide. Me and my brother had a tragic bike accident 6 months ago i was save but my brother had injured. We were at that location where we had not found any clinic or hospital physicaly then i searched hospital on google map and by filering i found clinic and got doctors number then i called and reach to the hospital for first treatment. So i want to thank google map and a local guide who added that clinic and full information of about clinic which helped me allot. After That i have started following and searching about google map and become a local guide now i am level 7 local guide have started helping people. @JuanCh
Here in Pakistan, no business is properly maintaing their Google My Business listening. My goal and aim for 2019 is to make sure every business in my city is fully equipped to handle that
