Star photo by @anon24291235 of Carluccio’s, Meadowhall, Sheffield, UK uploaded onto Google Maps on May 2023 and showing star views of 1,054,146 as at 28 March 2025
May 2023 is when I found out what a Featured photo was on Google Maps. I took “nice looking” photos for 6 years and didn’t even know you could look at the view count. I believe this photo was from the second day that I deliberately took photos of storefronts… because it mattered what Google wanted, not what I thought was “nice”.
I have a nice camera but you take photos with what you have with you, which is 100% your phone and in this case my Huawei P30.
It’s a bad quality photo in every respect, but you get away with a lot looking at these on phone screens. It’s not like you are going to set up a tripod and camera for these things, although I wish businesses would do that!
Photos are not my big thing with being a Local Guide, but I have to admit that getting one photo to 1M views was a nice thing to happen and that was DEC 2024,
this one has been stuck on 980,000 for nearly a year since the view numbers went a bit wonky at the start of 2024. So almost 1M views in ~9 months, and then 20,000 in the past 12 months despite being the Featured image for this location throughout.
| Screenshot Date | Place Name | Star Photo Views | Month Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Dec 2024 | Carluccio’s | 1,001,979 | |
| 28 Jan 2025 | Carluccio’s | 1,012,003 | 10024 |
| 28 Feb 2025 | Carluccio’s | 1,022,315 | 10312 |
| 28 Mar 2025 | Carluccio’s | 1,043,625 | 21310 |
| 28 Apr 2025 | Carluccio’s | 1,054,146 | 10521 |