Once i ordered a laptop from flipkart. i was very eager to receive my lappy and i was tracking it every single hour.
after few days lappy arrived to my home town and i was so impatient that i could not wait for a delivery boy to deliver it to me. i picked my phone and start searching where the flipkart office is. After finding it, i went their but unfortunately i was unable to locate it but after half an hour i found it and first sentence came out of my mouth was “OH! HERE IT IS” and you know what, it was just in front of my eyes but i was unable to find it and the fun fact is that it was just in front of my church were i used to go every Sunday.
why i got the difficulty? because the office has a board named Instakart ( pic-1) and had a very small entrance and gate. Generally people do not recall flipkart delivery center as INSTAKART.
Then i realized that thousands of people may get confused and may get delayed. So then i went to the google maps and added the pic of church, as it was known to all people , from the Instakart office gate(pic-2) and other pics with different angles so that it get easier to people to locate the office.Near about 26366 people used my pic for finding Flipkart office. All thanks to Google Maps.
Thousands of people here in Darbhanga District, BIHAR come from villages to Darbhanga city for various purposes and Donar chowk being the landmark. I posted the pic of the Donar Chowk so that it can be used for finding the location and you will glad to know it helped thousands of people, to be exact 9558(at time of writing application), again.
I am giving you few data about my home town, Darbhanga, so that you may get an estimate that how important google map has been for thousands of people.
According to 2011 census there are 2.67 lakhs ,means 0.267 million, people in Darbhanga and taking an average of 5 people per family it becomes 53400 families so with my just four to five pics i had helped 35924 families.
So this is the glimpse of what intresting i have done as being a local guide.