Local Guides Movers & Shakers (February 2024)

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Introduction

This post is about the top Local Guides actively contributing and achieving both the most points and views from photos, star photos, star videos and star 360 sphere contributions on Maps. The leaderboards give some indication as to who are the top Local Guides, the movers and shakers out there pounding the pavements guiding and impacting on their community most.

If you’re not listed in the Movers & Shakers leaderboards and believe that you should be then you can make this happen by registering and it’s simple to do, just hit this link or if you need some help then add a comment in this post and someone will jump in to help you.

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Reading the Movers & Shakers leaderboards (February 2024)

Briefly, this is what you need to know about the leaderboards in this post. For more details about the Top 100 leaderboards see the leaderboard documentation:

  1. Simply stated, the term Movers & Shakers in this post is used to describe the Local Guides that have achieved the most in terms of overall Local Guide points, photo views and star views over the past month. Therefore, the leaderboards in this post indicate how active each participating Local Guide has been over the past month as well as the performance of their photos, videos and 360 spheres, and their respective stars in terms of views over the same period.

    To explain the different metrics used in the Movers & Shakers leaderboards we will use the following simple example. Sarah, a Level 8 Local Guide, uses the T100 System and updates her data on the 28th of each month. For simplicity of explanation, she updates her data every 30 days! The following table summarizes her key data as at 28 April and 28 May::

    Data 28 April 28 May Delta % Delta
    Points 20,000 24,000 4,000 20%
    Photos 860 900 40 0.5%
    Photo Views 15m 16.8m 1.8m 12%
    Star Photo Views 4.03m 4.06m 0.03m 0.7%

    (a) The Delta Points is the value of the points earned by a Local Guide over the past month. In this way, Sarah’s current Delta Points is 4,000 [ 24,000 - 20,000 ]*.

    (b) The % Delta Points is the value of the points earned by a Local Guide over the past month expressed as a percentage. Therefore, Sarah’s current % Delta Points is 20% [ (4,000/20,000)*100 ].

    (c) The Delta Views is the absolute value of the total photo views gained by a Local Guide over the past month. Thus, Sarah’s Delta Views for that month is 1.8m [ 16.8m - 15m ]*.

    (d) The % Delta Views is the value of the total views gained by a Local Guide over the past month expressed as a percentage. Therefore, Sarah’s current % Delta Views is 12% [ (1.8m/15m)*100 ].

    (e) The Delta Views/Photo is the average photo views gained per photo by a Local Guide in the past month and for comparative purposes, this gives a simple measure of the overall quality of a Local Guide’s photos in terms of views gained per photo; the higher the Delta Views/Photo the higher the quality of the photos! Therefore, Sarah has a current Delta Views/Photo of 180 2,000 [ 1.8m/900 ].

    (f) The Delta Views/Day is the average photo views gained per day by a Local Guide in the past month and for comparative purposes, this is another metric that gives a simple measure of the overall quality of a Local Guide’s photos in terms of views gained per day; the higher the Delta Views/Day the higher the quality of the photos! Therefore, Sarah has a current Delta Views/Day of 60,000 [ 1.8m/30 ].

    (g) The Delta Star Views is similar to the Delta Views however in this case, it represents the views gained over the past month by a Local Guide’s most viewed photo, or star photo. Therefore, Sarah’s Delta Star Views is 30,000 [ 4.06m - 4.03m ]*

    (h) The Delta Star Views/Day is simply the average Delta Star Views per day over the past month. Therefore, Sarah’s star photo has a Delta Star Views/Day of 1,000 [ 30,000 / 30 ]. This metric gives a simple up-to-date measure of the quality of our star photo in terms of views gained per day*.

  2. If you are a participant in the Points, Photo Views, Star Photos and Country leaderboards and haven’t updated your data in the previous month and in time for the leaderboards posted here then you will obviously not be included in the Movers & Shakers leaderboards.

  3. If you are a new participant on the Top 100 Leaderboards then you will not be included in the Movers and Shakers this month simply because you do not have a prior month’s history.

  4. If you updated in your contributions data in the previous month but not in the month prior to that then you will also not be included in this month’s Movers & Shakers because your Delta Points would be across more than one month and this would unfairly distort the idea behind the Movers & Shakers which looks at the points and photo views movement (i.e. the delta points) in the one month.

  5. In summary, the Movers & Shakers leaderboards only include those Local Guides who regularly update and have especially done so over the last couple of months. It’s all about creating that level playing field and comparing apples with apples.

  6. Where shown, around leaderboard sequence numbers indicate that this is the Local Guide is a new participated on the Top 100 Local Guides leaderboards.

  7. An asterisk (*) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Connect Moderator.

  8. Double asterisks (**) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Googler.

  9. Selecting any of the Connect Usernames will take you to that Local Guide’s Connect Profile.

  10. The data for the leaderboards in this post was read at 5:00 AM on 2 March 2024 (UTC).

  11. Local Guides included in the leaderboards must check their entries for any errors. If you should find any errors or omissions, please add the details in a comment on this post.

    • Please note that making comparisons using metrics such as delta points and delta views must be done carefully. In my view it is better to use points per day or views per day for comparative purposes and you will find these in the Core Vitals section of the T100 Leaderboards System!
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Points Movers & Shakers Leaderboard
(February 2024)

2023 May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2024 Jan

No

Local Guide

LG

Level

Delta Points

1

@YasumiKikuchi

10

653,130

2

@Timgür

10

565,682

3

@KashifMisidia *

10

271,557

4

@JOSEWET

10

250,568

5

Who are the Local Guides knocking on the door here?

No Local Guide

LG



Level

 Delta Points
101 @MilesMac 10 419
102 @S_Patel 8 376
103 @EvaBar 8 276
104 @photoslinger 8 276
105 @JitendraKumarprasa 8 276
106 @Normalisaverage 8 229
107 @Getzafar 8 221
108 @HASHIM_AK 8 169
109 @Gavaskee 8 125
110 @AdamGT 10 124
111 @HuseyinBesguller 7 113
112 @CanadianBaconEH 7 95
113 @JohnDDoe 10 87
114 @Ayman88 10 69
115 @katydarhel 7 49
116 @PrateekAgarwal 9 37
117 @ACCoelho20 [3] 8 29
118 @selormOnray 9 22
119 @Calvin 8 21
120 @yeennk 7 20
121 @Rod52 8 20
122 @Ismi_Choirunnisa 8 20
123 @Nishanthligori 7 17
124 @DavidGarca1 7 15
125 @JakubWarsaw 8 14
126 @RahmatHarmanP 8 12
127 @sabangla14 10 11
128 @SabbirShawon 8 11
129 @FraTaff 9 11
130 @david_furman 9 11
131 @Mohamed-Afrin [3] 7 11
132 @MadsD 10 11
133 @viajando1 7 11
134 @ekbun 7 8
135 @Olofnh 8 8
136 @levanphu 6 6
137 @WinMoeKyaw [3] 6 6
138 @RK2010 8 6
139 @christophergarrett 8 6
140 @dbateser 9 5
141 @Skychitravels 9 4
142 @Mehran-Bhutto 8 3
143 @WorldSoloTraveler [3] 8 3
144 @Divija 6 3
145 @GloriaAccioly 10 3
146 @mornelouw 8 3
147 @AmbrishVarshney 10 2
148 @Ritarup 8 2
149 @JohnB_Outdoors 7 1
150 @Alak7aly 7 1
151 @Stevebell99 8 1
152 @You ? ? ?
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Photo Views Movers & Shakers Leaderboard
(February 2024)

2023 May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2024 Jan

No

Local Guide

LG
Level

Delta Views

% Delta Views

Delta Views/Photo

1

@Hana_K

10

174,078,280

999.9

6,235

2

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Star Photo Movers & Shakers Leaderboard
(February 2024)

2023 May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

2024 Jan

No

Local Guide

Delta
Star Views

Date Uploaded

Maps Category

Description

1

@JakubWarsaw

198,695

2022-06-01

Lake

Lake

2

@Mo_TravelleerX

73,862

2023-01-15

Mosque

Historical Landmark

3

@LightRich *

65,803

2022-12-19

Taco Shop

Seating area Internal

4

@IzzyOz

45,338

2023-07-23

Chinese restaurant

Storefront

5

@Scheria

29,713

2023-12-07

Mexican Restaurant

Building

6

@efcxp

24,097

2023-04-28

Museum

Statue or Monument

7

You ?

?

?

?

?
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Video Views Movers & Shakers Leaderboard
(February 2024)

2023 End 2023

2024 Jan

No

Local Guide

LG
Level

Delta Views

% Delta Views

Delta Views/Video

1

@BudiFXW

10

13,804,331

0.0

2,210

2

@tunaontour

8

9,571,797

0.0

33,235

3

@Jomo

10

7,898,504

0.0

4,770

4

@A-Kwon-Fang

10

6,210,707

0.0

6,053

5

@JohnDDoe

10

3,726,318

0.0

6,787

6

@MattGatlin

10

2,534,332

8.0

1,868

7

@jayasimha78

10

2,444,172

6.0

1,284

8

@abermans

10

2,423,117

5.9

492

9

@Getzafar

8

1,086,703

10.6

1,632

10

@turaibalazs

9

847,904

0.0

3,889

11

@RooksieN

9

532,660

18.9

8,455

12

@TerryPG

10

467,916

35.1

1,026

13

@TiffanyStockstill

8

463,473

9.2

3,678

14

@MilesMac

10

373,001

5.8

548

15

@LovePathak28

10

305,317

0.0

2,908

16

@DshottDennis

10

289,985

4.0

239

17

@Scheria

8

249,094

20.7

944

18

@MarkAuchincloss

10

214,294

2.1

45

19

@ZeZe

10

169,959

3.5

179

20

@LightRich *

8

151,403

5.8

621

21

@MBommeli

9

150,387

5.4

243

22

@MortenCopenhagen *

10

115,740

2.5

536

23

@Caverni

10

112,582

7.0

103

24

@tony_b

8

89,658

11.9

1,423

25

@ManhattanNYC

8

80,742

3.9

206

26

@ZigaD

10

56,712

9.0

111

27

@Mo-TravelleerX

9

49,580

5.3

144

28

@Trail_blazer

9

45,853

5.8

159

29

@Annaelisa

9

45,114

3.4

132

30

@JustJake

10

35,380

9.9

842

31

@JakubWarsaw

8

32,699

999.9

6,540

32

@Kurt2day

10

32,295

5.2

229

33

@Frank_H

9

31,623

5.4

249

34

@efcxp

8

29,770

11.5

217

35

@turbotapeworm

10

28,659

5.1

329

36

@AdriansyahPutera

10

28,220

3.6

96

37

@PrasadVR

10

28,085

14.3

43

38

@mbmuhlison

9

25,053

5.4

132

39

@Kumaarsantosh

10

21,822

5.3

56

40

@ajitthite

9

20,955

5.7

262

41

@AT_Rome

9

14,827

2.8

113

42

@LudwigGermany *

9

12,788

7.1

609

43

@FlavioDA

10

11,381

3.2

110

44

@JitendraKumarprasa

8

9,514

5.9

117

45

@burakozkarakasli

8

8,096

6.7

352

46

@Normalisaverage

8

7,529

4.7

139

47

@Tatsiana_T

8

6,136

50.1

614

48

@Hana_K

10

5,281

0.1

3

49

@AdamGT

10

3,392

11.1

424

50

@katydarhel

7

3,083

34.0

440

51

@Lukas_

10

2,751

2.7

44

52

@EvaBar

8

2,488

3.0

156

53

@HASHIM_AK

8

2,046

15.8

31

54

@CanadianBaconEH

7

1,513

10.9

378

55

@HuseyinBesguller

7

355

0.8

118

56

@You ?

?

?

?

?
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Star Video Movers & Shakers Leaderboard
(February 2024)

2023 Oct Nov Dec

2024 Jan

No

Local Guide

Delta
Star Views

Date Uploaded

Maps Category

Description

1

@RooksieN

86,220

2023-03-01

Japanese

Meal or beverage

2

@Mo_TravelleerX

21,601

2021-04-08

Water

Tourist attraction

3

@LightRich *

16,747

2022-01-20

Restaurant

Seating area External

4

@JustJake

7,829

2023-10-12

Restaurant

Meal or beverage

5

@Scheria

5,897

2023-11-11

Live music venue

Building

6

@AdamGT

1,471

2023-10-20

Restaurant

Meal or beverage

7

@efcxp

1,461

2022-10-01

Beach

Beach

8

@Kumaarsantosh

702

2023-04-08

Restaurant

Reception area

9

@Annaelisa

152

2021-08-10

Ort

Other

10

@PrasadVR

56

2023-07-15

Movie theatre

Storefront

11

@IzzyOz

24

2023-07-08

Town Hall

Other

12

You ?

?

?

?

?
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Star 360s Movers & Shakers Leaderboard
(February 2024)

2023 Oct Nov Dec End 2023

2024 Jan

No

Local Guide

Delta
Star Views

Date Uploaded

Maps Category

Description

1

@RooksieN

1,034

2023-10-09

Performing arts theater

Internal photo

2

@Kumaarsantosh

930

2023-09-28

Amusement Park

Storefront

3

@efcxp

573

2023-09-30

Beach

Beach

4

You ?

?

?

?

?
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Hmmm lots of interesting observations here when we compare this month’s Movers & Shakers Leaderboards with those of last month. Some deep checking is necessary here!

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Hello sir, @AdamGT “Star Photo Movers & Shakers Leaderboard (February 2024)” It appears there are only six LGs on the list. My name is missing, I think, it’s because of decrease in my star photo views compared to January.

Jan-2024 Star views 1,635,554

Feb-2024 Star views 1,580,761

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Yes, you are right @PrasadVR but stay tuned as you will recall that one good reason for proceeding with the February Leaderboards put forward by a number of Local Guides including @shunsader (here), @LightRich (here), @Annaelisa (here), @MarkAuchincloss (here), @jayasimha78 (here) and so many others, is that by doing so we can document/measure the impact on the Leaderboard participants as a whole.

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@AdamGT I’m also missing from the short lists of Star Photo and Star Video movers and shakers boards. Did you deliberately skip those who had negative progress?

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I’m really sorry to hear that you’re also missing from the short lists of Star Photo and Star Video movers and shakers boards @tony_b but no not deliberately but then again by definition, the movers and shakers leaderboards are all about highlighting those that have the “biggest” and not the “smallest” impact in the month :anguished:

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This is amazing! Thank you for your hard work!! @AdamGT

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@AdamGT , Agreed, but isn’t a negative impact still an impact? :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

Maybe we should have a special February “Loserboard” : instead of “Movers and Shakers” maybe it could be called something like “Losers and Sinkers” :thinking:

It would be an interesting competition to see who was robbed of the most data this month.

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@MattGatlin This is exactly what I was thinking in my comments to @AdamGT

When I suggested going ahead with the February boards, I was expecting to see visible evidence of the impact of the Maps platform implosion on our regular contributors.

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Hello @AdamGT Kindly consider the idea of @MattGatlin regarding a ‘Special Losers and Sinkers’ Loserboard (February 2024). It could add some fun to our platform, and we might not get this chance again.

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@PrasadVR

“we might not get this chance again”

I hope we don’t! :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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@MattGatlin Ihope not! :smile:

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Thanks for your appreciation as usual @OliverKIWI and I’m really pleased to see that you’re still enjoying the Leaderboards. I think the next lot will be of some interest to you and many :joy: :rofl: