I have been adding the missing place for last SIX + years. Yes the speed was quite slow and hence so far only 99 such places are added by me.
The important is that it is making impact to the society and people are becoming aware of such places. No matter few or more but what matters is that it gives me immense satisfaction that in some small way I am contributing to the community and making them well informed about the places through my contributions.
One of such added place is below which I added two weeks ago.
@Kumaarsantosh Thanks for your link to this thread. Just as I said to @AdamGT in the other thread, I see that just like me, youâre getting emails about views of a specific photo of a specific place. There arenât any notifications in my inbox that can point me to the total accumulated views of all ânew placeâ photos that I added.
@Kumaarsantosh I believe that finding and adding missing places on Maps is one of the hardest things to do because of the shear number of people and Local Guides now out there adding reviews and photos of places and of course businesses doing it themselves, so donât be hard on yourself. And the other thing of course, itâs very much location dependent, some countries and places just donât have the same guiding opportunities. Notwithstanding, how do we find missing places? I plan to share my thoughts on this soon.
Yes it seems that we are talking about different emails @tony_b and @Kumaarsantosh , one indicating views of specific locations and the the other a more general email indicating the views for all missing places added. Interesting!
Happy to share with the help of my original post that so far my added places on Google map has had a great impact. It touched the 5 million views as confirmed by google.
Thanks @AdamGT for initiating your post for capturing and looking for such impactful data.
@tony_b you might have received such email from Google for your added places or in future you might get in case your added place/s have significant impact. Itâs just a matter of time, it will come.
Keep building informed community stronger together.
Added to my earlier searches, I just took the exact words from your screenshot and tried to find âviews on the places youâve addedâ. The only results that came up were the notification emails of the posts by you and @AdamGT .
I just had a strange thought. In the same way that Google Maps doesnât allow people in my country to add roads, perhaps thereâs also discretion in not allowing us to see certain types of notifications. Letâs not worry about it any further.
Very good @Kumaarsantosh . It seems like they tease us with different types of messages to keep us addicted. Today I got a message about the total number of reviews Iâve posted, but no indication of how many times theyâve been read. Then it went on to tell me that one of my recent photos reached 1000 views.
Thatâs their tool to encourage and motivate LGs to come forward and continue with their contributions.
They have got free hand and leveraging them well.
Thatâs one part of the story but the more interesting and important is "we are doing it for our pleasure. It is our passion to explore and contribute to the world driving us more than such teasers and at times some small token of gesture from Google like for example Google Map Pinâșïžâ.
Addition of this screenshot of Google map notifications in this series. This is the result in just two weeks (place added on 28-MAY-2023) after adding this place on the map.
Addition of this screenshot of Google map notifications in this series. This is the result in just two weeks (place added on 28-MAY-2023) after adding this place on the map.
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