It’s a beneficial exercise to examine your public profile, occasionally.
You come to know whether the count of private reviews and photos has not grown out of proportion.
In the previous UI, there was an option to glimpse how we look in the public mirror.
However, I did not discover that after the changeover to the new UI.
Nevertheless, you can achieve that still through a slightly complicated route.
However, you need establishing one more profile in the Maps app. That can be another account of yours or somebody from your family or friends.
Once done, click on the share symbol near your profile badge in contribute.
That will open up a menu on how to share.
I prefer the copy to clipboard option.
Next, save that as a note in Google Keep or Docs.
Return to Maps and switch to another profile.
Again back to the note & then click on the stored link.
It would instantly transport you to your public profile.
Hi @C_T thank you for sharing this tip, sometimes we do need to know if we do have contributions which are private or not, so that you know if you need to improve somewhere somehow. I have not noticed that this feature is not available on the new version.
I have another way to check this, which is to simple logout from your Gmail account, open Google Maps, and check your contribution by searching a location where you know you have contributed, and check your profile from there, your reviews and photos will be accessible from there.
Agreed, there can be multiple ways to do that. However, it appears that only a few take the trouble to look at the public profile and as a result of that the simplest option to do so has vanished in the new version.
I was a bit worried about recommending local guides having more than one account, but I see your point clearly now. Before I thought that opening my profile in an incognito window would show my public profile. But no - you are right, it is not the full profile with profile text and the follow button etc we get to see in an incognito window.
A Google maps user can be anybody. The person need not have a Google account.
However, to post reviews, photos or to do edits, one needs to have a Google account. Still, that person need not be a local guide. That’s called community activity. These actions get counted as “contributions”.
Just now I noted a remark on the profile of one such person which says, If you join the LG program, you will be at level 4 straightaway!
By signing the LG program, we get recognition like points, badges and sometimes the perks.
Well, it is normal for many to have, for several different reasons, more than one Google profile @MortenCopenhagen , even if this is one of the reason why, if not managed carefully, this can land on trouble, multiple Local Guides Account, and so on.
What I do, @C_T , is to switch to the anonymous mode and to search for a place where I have contributed. From there I reach my public profile. The link on the clipboard is indeed interestin.
BTW, have you already suggested on Idea Exchange to restore the "public Profile View?
Tag me, or link it here, and my vote will be there