Apart from watching photos in google maps of different places around the world, the most interesting thing I have done is adding places to google maps. By adding these places, I am able to grow up businesses for the small businessman, satisfy the query of the people who wants to visit the place, etc. Let us have a look!
National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela is one of the leading and premium technological institutes in India. But, can you just imagine this place was not present in Google maps!. The new students (including me!) who want to take admission at NIT Rourkela, could not find this place in google map, which was creating a bad impression! There was a discrete addition of various departments (like NIT Rourkela Mining Engineering Department) on the map. So, when I reached NIT Rourkela for the first time, what I did first is the addition of this place to the google map. Nowadays I see many reviews of this place in google maps and sometimes my fellow mates and some teacher of NIT Rourkela loves to call me, reminding me that I am the one who added it to google maps to help others.
One day I was really hungry and were traveling in a car. Being hungry, I started to find a nearby restaurant on google, but there was no result for my location. But in less than a minute, I observed this hotel just beside the road and I stopped the car and had a great lunch there. I immediately added the hotel in google maps and told it to the owner of the restaurant. He was very happy to know and thanked me a lot. He took my phone number, and till now whenever he has a chat with me in social media, he thanks me a lot and tells me that the addition of his restaurant to google map has really grown up his business.
Rourkela Station Parcel / Luggage booking office-
I had to transfer a bi-cycle from Rourkela to Kolkata. I heard about the parcel transportation facility in Indian Railway. So, I started searching for the Rourkela railway station parcel booking facility and the timing of booking. But there was no result in google. I went to Rourkela railway station and after reaching there, I came to know that the time for booking for that day is over and I have to visit the office again the next day. Immediately I took a photo of the board mentioning the timing and added the place to google maps. The problem which I faced, no-one should face in the future and people can come to the parcel booking office by managing their time. Otherwise, if they do not know the timing of the office, and come to the office, that will lead to wastage of their time.
The addition of new places to google maps is always interesting for me, which can satisfy someone’s query, can help to grow up businesses. I am always grateful to the google map, which serves people globally and is always updated by the google local guides.
Adding new places to the google map and the impact of those places on the lives of people is the most interesting thing I have done as a Local Guide.