Hello everyone,
Today I’m gonna tell you a little story about my starting of contribution in Google Maps. Actually I started contributing from last Year, 2018. Prior to this I was using Google Maps for commuting to new places only. And I wasn’t aware of how it works?, how things get listed on it?, or Who does this?
My perception was like that might be there is any team of Google Maps that does the entire stuff to it.
I had a state government competition exam last year in 2018 in Kurukshetra district of Haryana, India, I think in starting of year. At that time I was living in Faridabad, Haryana. As usual I searched for the venue and saved the location. I was supposed to reach the venue by 8:00 am. By bus, I reached the Bus stand of Kurukshetra around 7:00 am. From there my saved venue was approximately 2 km away. I starting walking to my saved location on foot as there was enough time left.
When I reached the location, I found that there was no venue. There were empty plots. It was listed wrongly on Google Maps by someone. I searched again and again on maps and asked the locals, and I found that my desired location was 5 km away from current location. Somehow by taking lift from public, I reached to the venue in time.
From then I starting finding issue with it. By googling more and more stuff, I came to know about Google Maps Contribution Program and Local Guide Connect. And I became the Local Guide to contribute to Google Maps. One more thing, I love to take photos which is plus point for me, If some how I could show you my collection photos of places which I had visited in my life. From then it became my hobby to contribute to Google Maps regularly. Now I have listed so many new authentic places, rectified already listed places to their correct position & correct information in Google Maps. I have uploaded several videos and reviewed the places which I have visited. This gives me more and more satisfaction. It makes me feels good that my contributions helps people a lot to commute to places easily.
After the Google Maps Contribution program, I came to know about 360 degree photos and even I have upload several such photos. I have improved my locality on Google Maps. This has listed my village to Google Maps. I’m proud to be a local guide.
Some of them you can check out below
I hope you enjoyed reading this story.
Thanks a lot.
Pawan Kumar