Namaskaram Local Guides,
Njan Sharath.
I am a Malayali Rider from Calicut, Kerala.
I use Google maps for my rides all the time. That is how i got into contributing to Google maps and eventually to local guides.
I depend on The reviews, feedback and ratings from Guides on different places, restaurants and Hotels before i make a choice. I know how important it is to know the full story about a place before you make a booking there. I have evaded many bad experiences just because of google reviews and i try to make my contributions as detailed and as informative as I can. I include as many pictures as I can about places I visit and Find new in my locality. I try and include videos and be as straightforward as I can about my experience at a shop or place.
That is what I urge everyone to do. Share our true experience at any place we visit. It will be helpful to someone like me, who is travelling from far far away and dont know where to go visit or what to eat and where. Especially to get them to avoid known scams and cons the locals may be familiar with. I have known this so much from my recent trips to Goa where some bike rental companies are actually con artists who when you return the bikes will actually find reasons to not give you the deposit back or outright force you to leave physically. if it wasn’t for google guides and reviews, hundreds of them Literally, I would have just gone with the closest one and got into trouble. So, I do this to return the favor. keep up the good work Guides, Proud of this community.