Are you involved with an unofficial Local Guides Community? If so, we challenge you to create a Google Earth Project that showcases your Local Guides community. In other words, tell a story about your unofficial community.
Make the best of Google Earth’s new project capabilities and push your creative limits.
About the Local Guides #CommunityChallenge
The Community Challenge is an initiative by Local Guides World, a proud (unofficial) community of contributors to Google Maps. Our first #CommunityChallenge was held in January 2019 and for LGW members only. This new #CommunityChallence is aimed at all Local Guides on all (social media) platforms. It is presented in collaboration with the Community Exchange Program, a network of unofficial Local Guide communities.
The mission of our Local Guides #CommunityChallenge is to leverage the output by Local Guides. As Local Guides, we like to rise above the goals we set and push our performance. The aim is to inspire and showcase great examples. To raise the bar, so to speak.
For each #CommunityChallenge category we will appoint a special jury to select the best entries. In case of this Meet-Up category, the “experts” will be community leaders of participating (unofficial) Local Guides communities. In addition, we shall have the title “Community’s Choice” winner, the most favourite entry voted for by you.
Community Promo - Community Challenge Terms & Conditions
You should own all content that you share in your project or have permission to use it. Please respect intellectual property;
Entries need to be submitted by 2 P.M. UTC on January 15th, 2020 by providing us with the public share link (view only) in the comments below;
To be eligible for the competition element of this challenge, your submission needs to be in scope with this category: Local Guides “Community Promo”. When you have questions about the definition of this category, feel free to tag me, the project manager (@JeroenM) below;
All Local Guides are invited (across social media platforms) to participate. Since we wish to ensure that all entries abide by the official Local Guides Program Rules, entries are only valid when submitted here on Local Guides Connect, the only official online community for Local Guides;
Individuals, teams or communities may submit more than one entry. After all, this is all about practicing our skills and pushing our limits. You may wish to showcase different ideas;
Jury members and members of the project team can participate, but are exempt from voting for their own entries.
Entries are by default shared under Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). In case you share your content on other terms, you need to explicitly say so.
Your public vote is only eligible when you cast a single vote per category (aka one vote per person).
Judging starts on January 15th, 2020. The time needed by the Jury, however, very much depends on the number of submitted entries.
Individuals can cast their “Community’s Choice” vote from January 16th until January 31st (2 P.M. UTC).
Besides on other social media platforms, the results of our Community Challenge will be published on Local Guides Connect at the new LGC Achievement Board.
Hi @JeroenM thank you for the challenge, it really look like we are going to see great visuals here and ideas. I am not sure if I will be taking part but I am looking forward to it as I enjoy going beyond my limits and improving the few skills I already have from this project. Cheers!
Thank you @LuaPL . This may actually be the most difficult category out of the 6 #CommunityChallenge categories. To showcase an unofficial Local Guides community via Google Earth, however, allows communities to give an overview of the type of Meet-Ups and outreach/ community work they do.
They are not the same @FaridTDF . The rules are slightly different for some categories and the idea was to have the categories of the #CommunityChallenge separate. In addition, some categories belong under “Local Stories” and other under “Meet-Ups”.
It would have been appreciated if you had first discussed with me how I should or could have approached my posts differently rather than merging them without having a conversation about it first. Thank you for your understanding.
Lo siento, ya se solicitó que se realice un rollback de su caso @JeroenM , y que lo analice un google Moderador, ya que sus post son iguales y sutilmente cambian el título y dos lineas, con lo cual no es tan evidente la diferencia de un post del otro, esto para un Local Guides inicial no se dará cuenta, por eso se incentiva que los post contengan contenidos diferentes.
Thank you very much @FaridTDF . I totally understand that without seeing the full picture it was a very easy mistake to make as a Moderator. There are lots of posts for you guys need to screen and at first sight, they do look indeed very similar. Apology accepted and thank you for asking for the rollback. I already wrote my message to @AriMar before I saw your response. I had a bit of a panic moment there…pffff
Thank you again. With the rollback, no real harm is done. Have a great evening/day.
Hahaha @DavidTito , exactly, show us how it is done.
I am surprised how few examples can be found of Google Earth Projects and that is not just here on LGC. Try and Google for it, and you find almost nothing. Maybe it is too soon, as it is so new? But then we need people like you @DavidTito , to be our pioneer and makes us more comfortable what can be done with this new tool.
@JeroenM I have put together a little bit of information I have picked out myself and something to start this category. I hope you will find useful, enjoye
Thank you so much, @DavidTito , for sharing all this great knowledge. Your video is very impressive and exciting although perhaps a little too violent for my personal taste. It looks like Star Wars (lol). I guess all gamers in our community are used to this (hahaha).
I don’t see your Google Earth Project link yet and I am dying of anticipation. Any idea when your “release date” will be of the GE Project that you are working on?
lol @JeroenM I totally didn’t see that until now, but I like to make it enterprising.but to more to the point I found making my own coordinate adjustments fundamental
