Introduction:
This post is all about the photos contributed to Google Maps by Local Guide from all over the world. More specifically, it’s about the views that these photos rack up. It consists of a series of leaderboards showcasing the view counts of these photos. There’s a leaderboard for each Local Guide level and in this way you don’t have to be a “top gun” level 10 Local Guide with a mega million views to be featured on the Leaderboards! Whether you’re an entry level Local Guide or from a small country, town or village, or a top level Local Guide from London, New Delhi or New York, you can join in and it’s simple to do! If you want to jump on board, just mention this in a comment in this post.
Why are photo views important?
We all know that as Local Guides we don’t get points for the views that our contributions generate! However, views are important as they give us a pretty good indication on how we are impacting on our communities at the Local Guide level. For example, they give us a good indication on how many people we have helped make a decision such as what place to visit or what meal to have. So while we don’t get points for photo views, we certainly get an awesome feeling when we see that our photos are being viewed by many people and being visible across Google services, like Search, means that our photo view counts can increase significantly and you will see on the Leaderboards in this post, how significant this can be.
Is this just a competition?
While there is an inherent competitive element within them, the Leaderboards are more than just about seeing who has the “best” photos or the most photo views, far from it! They have been specifically designed to motivate us, help us to monitor >our contributions and performance, and show us how to improve >and make better contributions so that we achieve better results, and all in a fun and enjoyable way!
The cover image:
Sand Key Beach, located on Sand Key, a barrier island in Pinellas County, Florida, is a tranquil and beautiful destination boasting pristine white sand and clear, turquoise waters and known for its wide, sandy shores and serene atmosphere. It’s less crowded than many other beaches in the area, making it ideal for those seeking a peaceful beach experience and is also well known for its stunning sunsets, making it a popular spot for evening strolls and photography and this is what drew @EvaBar , a Level 8 Local Guide to this location on Florida’s Gulf Coast, in February 2020, right before pandemic hit. While there, using her iPhone 11Pro, she snapped the beautiful sunset shown as the cover image of this post. Eva mentioned “it was probably one of the very last ‘normal’ outings for me before the world changed.”
Thank you Eva for sharing your magnificent sunset snap with us all!
Note:
If you’re new here then you may not be aware that this post forms part of a series of leaderboard posts each covering different aspects of the Maps contributions made by Local Guides. To see an index to these different leaderboard posts and all posts associated with them, simply hit this link.
Now how is that possible? Is it perhaps another example of some correction from the recent Google media views issue?
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