Local Guides Movers & Shakers (September 2024)

Nothing in Spam @PrasadVR

I get monthly Road Mapper emails titled “Anthony, see your impact on Road Mapper last month”.

Other recent emails were titled:

  • Your reviews are really popular on Google Maps - 24th September
  • Anthony, your contributions had 390,963 views in August - 7th September
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@AdamGT The emails seem to be on and off. I did receive this one this morning. Photo views always brings a smile to my face.

tpg email screenshot

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@tony_b Have you checked your inbox with the subject line ‘The places you added have reached a new record on Google Maps’ ?

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Congratulations dear @TerryPG , Its truly huge number. your photos have been viewed more than 1,625,000,000 times.

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Yes @PrasadVR . That’s what you told us to check but my last one was so long ago. That’s why I gave examples of some more current emails I’ve been receiving with different titles.

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@tony_b , Thanks for the clarification. Feel free to post the latest screenshot.

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@PrasadVR and @tony_b

I have the impression, this kind of mail is not sent periodically, but only when a certain threshold is reached. When you look at the examples here, the numbers all end either with …,500,000 or …,000,000. Besides the one of 7/9 mentioned above, I only found one more sent in November 2023.

Would be interesting to see more examples.

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I think you’re correct @WilfriedB @PrasadVR @TerryPG

After another search, I can confirm it was in 2023. I received an email in July about the number of places I added and then in November about the total views of the places that I added. So this won’t be a regular email because most of our activity likely relates to places that we didn’t add ourselves.

Caption: You reached a new record: 15 places added on Google Maps! - 4th July 2023

Caption: The places you added have reached a new record on Google Maps! - 7th November 2023

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I’ve taken a look at this @AdamGT and I see now that the emails are about “places you’ve added”, which would probably explain why they aren’t a regular monthly communication. Most of us probably spend a lot more time adding photos, videos, reviews, and edits to places that have already been added by someone else, than actually adding new places ourselves. Having received my last one in November last year (which was after 5 years of contributing), my next significant milestone would probably not be this year.

(Some LGs with more opportunity to add new places may of course get their notifications more often than I would).

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Hi @tony_b & all

I remember getting these

I was doing so well for them I got 1TB free storage

I used about less than 200gb & 1 fine day revoked

rendering my email invalid as over the 15Gb free

still the email associated with me here

yes pretty p…ed o.f

but look that’s life

my last email 4th of May 2021

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Finally you have traced the email. Well done @tony_b , happy to see your screenshot.

I’m anxiously looking forward to seeing the October Movers & Shakers @AdamGT. Now in the process of uploading my November information. Should we be delaying that a bit until you’re finished with the October data?

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No not at all @tony_b. Everyone should proceed with checking their Maps contribution data and update star media data. Having moved to the new Connect, as @YuliiaZa has discovered, there is still a links issue when adding new star media and it has now moved to the 2nd top position on my to-do-list.