Hi, I’m from Colombia and at the time of writing this post I’m a local guide level 7, what I like to share the most on the google maps platform are photos of meals, restaurant photos, and I like it a lot because I think it’s very useful to share the photos of the menus and their prices, to share the prices people who visit new restaurants or locals will know exactly how much money to carry, this way there will be no surprises or embarrassment when paying bills. I also like to discover new places that are not on the map, there are new places every day and there are also places that stop working every day. so it is very useful also informs when a local closes, as it has already happened many times that I go to a place and is no longer, this makes us lose a lot of time to go to that place that has already closed completely.
I started a long time ago to share my opinions in google maps, since I am also a great user of this platform, when I made my trip throughout South America in 2014, it was with the help of google maps that I planned my favorite places to visit in Each country, in Google Maps, marked all the tourist places and I also took into account the opinions of others to know if it was a good place to visit or not.
So in the same way that I could see and live the importance of the contributions of the local guides to the platform, so I also do my best to make real opinions that serve others. I have seen that thanks to my opinions many places have changed to improve and have taken my opinion into account.