My name is Youri from The Netherlands, currently traveling around Australia. This post is about why I started sharing on Google Maps and became a local guide.
I love showing people around the cities I travel and try to update Google Maps as much as I can, everywhere I go. The reason I do this is because I know it helps other travellers who rely on Google Maps just like I did the first time I arrived in a new city.
The things I love to share the most is my photography of different places around the world, especially when it’s a new place and I get the honour of being the first person to upload what this amazing place or business looks like. Currently my pictures and videos reached over a 100.000 views and I couldn’t be more proud!
While traveling the world I’ve always been interested in leaving a mark or some kind of helpful information about a country, city, area or even a small single place. Growing up seeing the internet evolve in one of the biggest ways of communication and information sharing worldwide, I always wanted to be a part of that. While everyone nowadays shares there favourite moments on different social media platforms and everything looks (almost) to perfect I think it’s important that there is still a platform where you can read and see peoples real opinions (and actually inform other people about useful things).
I strongly believe Google Maps/Reviews is the perfect platform for that.