Share Your Google Maps Photos - Last of 2022 - First of 2023

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Hello Local Guides, Happy New Year everyone.

The new year is always a new beginning, a beginning that can be in continuity with the previous year or dedicated to change.

The same goes for our contributions as Local Guides.

How was yours?

Mine wanted to be symbolic in many ways, with a sense of continuity but also of transition.

For the first time in many years I wanted, and looked for, two images linked to each other, even if of two different places. Two images that, given the type of place, will have very few views, but which have great value for me.

They are photos of two small hydroelectric plants, of which my region is very rich, so they produce clean and environmentally friendly energy. This is the continuity between the old and the new year, with a signal that wants to be of hope for a cleaner environment.

Caption: In the background a trunk covered in moss painted with the red and white stripes that mark the paths in the mountains. In the foreground the images of two mobile phones with two images, and below them the words "Last of 2022" and "First of 2023". In the center the writing "Share Your Google Maps Photos!!" and "Welcome 2023 - Bye bye 2022" - Photos @ErmesT
Caption: In the background a trunk covered in moss painted with the red and white stripes that mark the paths in the mountains. In the foreground the images of two mobile phones with two images, and below them the words "Last of 2022" and "First of 2023". In the center the writing "Share Your Google Maps Photos!!" and "Welcome 2023 - Bye bye 2022" - Photos @ErmesT1600Ă—900 308 KB

Last of 2022

I wanted to end the year with a nocturnal image. It was a picture I’d wanted to take for a long time, but it wasn’t until December 29th that I had the opportunity to be in that place at the right time.

I had to wander a bit in the dark alleys across the lake from the power plant to find the location I wanted. I took a series of images and chose the one that best symbolically represented the end of the year, with the warm light reflected on the surface of the lake, and above the maintenance tunnels with the comet star, symbol of Christmas, positioned at the top.

Here you can explore Nove Power Station in Google Maps

Caption: The image shows a hydroelectric power plant at night on the opposite side of a lake. The central one is white and illuminated, with five arches by warm yellow light, and is reflected on the dark water of the lake. At the top right the writing "Last of 2022", white on a red background - Photo @ErmesT
Caption: The image shows a hydroelectric power plant at night on the opposite side of a lake. The central one is white and illuminated, with five arches by warm yellow light, and is reflected on the dark water of the lake. At the top right the writing "Last of 2022", white on a red background - Photo @ErmesT1600Ă—900 176 KB

First of 2023

The first image of 2023 in Google Maps at this point was a natural consequence: another hydroelectric plant, photographed on the morning of January 1, to symbolize the dawn of the New Year.

The sun was starting to light up the valley, but the power plant was still in the shade. I wanted to take a wide field photo, to represent the plant in the context of the environment that surrounded it.

Here you can explore Enel Green Power Fadalto in Google Maps

Caption: The image shows a hydroelectric plant in the morning on the opposite side of a lake. The plant is in the shade, while the surrounding mountains are illuminated by the sun. At the bottom left the writing "First of 2023", white on a green background - Photo @ErmesT
Caption: The image shows a hydroelectric plant in the morning on the opposite side of a lake. The plant is in the shade, while the surrounding mountains are illuminated by the sun. At the bottom left the writing "First of 2023", white on a green background - Photo @ErmesT1600Ă—900 343 KB

Share Your Photos

Do you also want to share the story of your two photos that close 2022 and open 2023?

Are they related to each other or are they part of two different moments?

Why did you choose to upload exactly those?

Share your story in a reply here below, and Happy New Year again

Ermes

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Hey @ErmesT Happy new year, it’s really a great idea , I like this unique concept. I hope that I will see a more beautiful and clean environment this year. I’m planning to plant 100 plants in my area , it’s a very small contribution but I hope it will encourage other people too. Thanks and have a nice day :blush: .

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Happy new year to you too, @Mukul_Anand . Planting 100 trees is a great action, congratulation.

I was checking your profile to see if you had a Last of 2022 and a first of 2023 photo, and I want to add a small tip to you, to keep also the “digital environment” clean and usable: Please avoid redundancy and duplicate photos in your contribution. It is not only useless as type of contribution, but also not healthy for your profile.

According to the Community policy :

  • “Take photos that clearly and accurately represent a location …**”
  • “Dark, blurry, and redundant photos will be removed. Users who duplicate photos across locations, … will also be removed.”

Cleaning the profile from useless digital data will also help the environment.

Have a nice day too. Happy Mapping

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Thank you @ErmesT for this feedback I will definitely delete all the duplicate pictures from my profile :blush: .

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You are welcome @Mukul_Anand ,

Improving your contributions will not only reduce the risk for your profile to be banned, but will also transform you in an helpful and great Local Guide, because you will start to think about every single photo that you add.

Please tag me when your clean-up will be completed. For sure I can give you some tip about what to keep, what to remove, and why

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it’s a wonderful and emotional title @ErmesT . While the past year leaves us good memories, every year we meet gives us new hopes. When I look at the maps, the first post I made is a steak with 3 mushrooms that I tried for the first time. Actually, I can say that I started the new year with innovations(i have to start sports :sweat_smile: )My expectation from this year is to have a new passport. .this is a kind of visa-free and I can visit almost 200 countries. And my goal in the new year will be to meet with my local guide friends in many countries. So places to visit, photos to add, places to comment…

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Hey @ErmesT ,

Happy New Year to you as well and everyone else all around the world :star2: ! Nice and interesting idea, let me share mine.

Last photo of 2022

This is my last uploaded photo of 2022, just before the end of the year. It is the entrance of the trailing path to reach the top of the Vesuvio vulcano in Naples. After this checkpoint there is the small path reaching the top cone. The story behind is cultural visits me and my eldest daughter Federica discovering things in our born city since we moved out of Naples when she was still too little while we go back visiting our families during Christmas time.

Entrance of the walking trail path "Il gran cono" at 1000mt on the Vesuvio vulcano, Naples, Italy - Local Guides @LuigiZ
Entrance of the walking trail path "Il gran cono" at 1000mt on the Vesuvio vulcano, Naples, Italy - Local Guides @LuigiZ900Ă—482 82.2 KB

First photo of 2023

This is the first photo appearing in my 2023 uploads, the first weekend of January. It is the inside upper floor of a pizzeria in Lucca with the view over the Christmas decoration. The story behind, we were here to celebrate my eldest daughter Federica birthday with her classmates.

Upper floor view over the Christmas decoration downstairs inside a Pizzeria, Lucca, Italy - Local Guide @LuigiZ
Upper floor view over the Christmas decoration downstairs inside a Pizzeria, Lucca, Italy - Local Guide @LuigiZ900Ă—975 173 KB