I am a photography enthusiast. I generally make it a point to take photographs of the places I visit - the place might be as simple as a restaurant or a fuel station or as beautiful as some hill stations. I have added 78 photos to Google Local Guides. Out of my curiosity and intention to make people have better idea of what a place looked like, I began adding photos. It helped me that Google Local Guides acknowledged contributions by adding points to my account for each photo. This encouraged me even more. Google Local Guides is such a motivating scheme for users to contribute with their knowledge of local conditions and help others, especially tourists to gain more information about a place for better planning and a hassle free visit.
So, thank you Google for providing a platform like Google Local Guides which provides me an ordinary person like me an opportunity to make my humble contributions.