I love everything about sharing on Google Maps. When I first started, I had only heard you could earn Drive space for doing reviews. I was already doing some reviews on TripAdvisor and enjoyed knowing other people found value in my words. I absolutely LOVE to travel and realizing the Local Guides program existed, I immediately dove in wholeheartedly. Quickly leveling up, it became addicting. And quite a few times I got responses from owners of businesses I reviewed and their response of gratitude was truly awesome. It validated all the time I had spent reviewing and uploading pictures.
Having a picture viewed 500,000 times was humbling as well, knowing that something I created was of a quality that google itself featured the pic in such a way that HALF A MILLION people viewed it. And with 3 million total views, I figure I am doing something right, and every time I get a upvote on a review, a response from an owner, or a picture of some foreign place is viewed, I know I helped some traveler, just like my self. You cannot put a price on that.
- A traveler