I am coming from a very humble and religious family from a small village in the Saurashtra area of Gujarat. The majority of People living in Saurashtra are from villages and often find difficulties in their commutes due to lack of knowledge of internal village roads and they have to ask other people on their commute for the place and roads. When I have used google map I also find some of the internal roads were not showing up while navigating. Then I have decided to add such roads and some famous religious places on google maps so people would easily find it by just asking google assistant on their smart devices instead.
Its always have been my strong desire to help people and community directly or indirectly. This gives me immense pleasure and the internal satisfaction of being helpful to people out there. These desires have been fulfilled when I came across one of the best Google services, google maps and after using for my local commute I got very fascinated about it. After using quite a long time I came across google map maker which has enabled my urge to serve society by adding internal roads especially in the village area and religious places in the Saurashtra area in Gujarat.
This is a famous religious place in the middle of the Gir forest in Junagadh with the elegant scenic natural beauty of the state. This place is visited by plenty of people from across the state and country during the month of the Mahashivaratri-Hindu festival. It is 30 minutes of walk from the city area to ashram in the Gir jungle. Before google map, people have to rely on a local tour guide in the city to navigate them through the jungle to the ashram. Now after I added this place on the google map, it has impacted the lives of thousands of people visiting the ashram. This place has now known to so many people and they can enjoy the beauty of the jungle while their pilgrimage to this ashram with ease. This place has been reviewed by more than 300 people on google map that gives me immense pleasure of satisfaction for the efforts I put through.
This is also another spiritual Hindu place in the holy land of Junagadh, where people came from all across the state and country. I visit this place each year and I remember that when I was traveling there without Google Maps, I always find it difficult to reach that place. I always have to ask local people for the way. But once I found out google map on which I added this place and internal road-Ashram Road that connects this place to the main road, my travel has now become peaceful. This has impacted the commute of those people who go on pilgrimage to the ashram.
I have also added a total of 755 roads which are internal roads of Gujarat state to help people while navigating through the street view of google map.
That’s how Google Maps helped these religious places to get recognized by the people across the state and country and people can reach out to such places with minimum hustle. In addition to that, these efforts have helped local businesses to grow up and increased tourism in those places. I feel privilege enough that with the help of google map I can serve my community and also able to follow my passion for religious places.