I am surajit Mohanty from India. I am a space scientist in ISRO by profession and a business enthusiast.
My preference to contribute is by adding new places on google map that doesn’t exist. when I do that the first step is done then all the good thing follows. People start rating as it takes very less time compared to adding a place or to write a detailed review. The popularity and activities increase. Then onwards the system keeps on goingsmoothly. In my locality there are many small business man who are not aware about the existence and benefit of google map.
Let me give a real life example of mine:
There is a small restaurant near my flat where I go for dinner everyday. The first day I checked on google map that this place hasn’t been added, So i added the place and all the details of the shop and few photos of the food that I ordered for myself. The name of the shop is ‘Punjab Paratha Zone’. The very next day when I visited the restaurant for my dinner the owner was very happy towards me. He asked if I had added the deatils and photos on Google map. I said “yes”. Then he gave me few more photos to upload, the special dishes of the restaurant. He started recieving order through phone call and even food delivery intermediaries like Zomato and Swiggy contacted him. His business grew to another level. He was so happy that he gave me 15% discount then onwards. I even helped my two roommates getting this deal of 15% off in the same restaurant.
So, to me what I love most is adding new places on google map and sometimes even I go on a walk on the street and keep on adding anything that’s not there in the google map.