When I started using googlemaps I was quite impressed with he idea of generating data with th help of local guides community by Google maps. Everytime I visited a place googlemaps asked me on the feedback
about the place and a long list of questions associated with that place. Most of the time I wrote an honest feedback about the place. Slowly I realised that I have started enjoying this acitivity as it was about helping other people around your community get more information about a place, type of food, location of a
restaurant, a mall a store or review of a restaurant on the quality of food etc.I started suggesting google maps
on missing places like housing socities, companies, stores etc.
In todays world there we are searching many things in a day and google maps has comes pretty handy as its has most of the information with it along with it. Infact, nowadays I rely on googlemaps for almost anytihing I need to search and I am not disappointed most of the times except for certain excpetional cases.
Infact google maps is a great way to advertise for small business shops, as one can locate the shop very easily of its located on maps.
It makes me feel good when I give something back to the society I live in with out being selfish.I hope the local guides community has contributed significantly to google maps and would continue to do so in future.
If we can link this activity to some contributing to a social cause in our community that would make it more satisying for me.