Hello.
I have been involved in adding information to Google Maps for several years and have already become a local guide to them.
This is a very interesting activity and it delays, like a sport or like reading good books. We can say that this is a very good addiction.
The initial incentive to add information to Google Maps was the desire to share information with ordinary people who daily need various services but cannot find a better contractor, simply because there is no information about it on the Internet.
I myself constantly encounter such a situation, when in a small store you buy a laser disc at the best price in the city, but this store does not have a website on the Internet.
Or you have been tonsured by a wonderful hairdresser, but his salon is not on the Internet either. The same applies to many professionals: beauticians, fitness instructors, cooks, teachers, builders, doctors, flower sellers and other great people.
Then I decided that it was unfair when there is no relevant information about such remarkable businessmen on the net.
Or, for example, in Google Maps there is a mention of an enterprise, a store, a school, but there is no recall from those people who used their services. This is also unfair. Without feedback, such institutions are faceless. And I want people to know that they can expect what kind of service they can get. I myself always read reviews to know whether to dine in this restaurant, or to live in this hotel.
I also like to share photos of places I visit, so that people have an idea of whether they should go there. Photos from Google Maps helped me a lot when I was going to go to Budapest. Before the trip, I explored the city from photographs in Google Maps. It is very convenient and useful.
I also like to place in Google Maps photos of entrances to institutions so that other people can easily get into them. This is very important for our city of Kaliningrad, because there are many old pre-war buildings in it, and very often it is difficult to immediately find the entrance. You can spin around the house for an hour, but you can’t find the entrance because it can be from the next street, from the courtyard, or from another building. It is very tiring, so I try to make life easier for other researchers with my photos.
To summarize, I want to say that I use Google Maps to make the life of people around us more convenient, comfortable and interesting. So that they use their free time to communicate with loved ones in the best places of the city, rather than thinking and searching for hours The web.
Thank!