Readme - How to Read the Photo Views leaderboards (May, 2025)
Briefly, this is what you need to know about the leaderboards in this post. For more details see the leaderboard documentation and the Leaderboard System’s online context-sensitive help information.
- The leaderboards in this post present details about the photo views of hundreds of participating Local Guides from all over the world. As well as an overall leaderboard ranking the top 100 Local Guides by photo views, you will see leaderboards for different Local Guide levels which provide you with direct comparisons of your photo views achievements with that of your peers.
There’s also a leaderboard, referred to as the Exclusive Billion Photo Views Club that highlights those heavy hitting, high views Local Guide achievers.
Finally, there’s a leaderboard that shows the top 100 Local Guides ranked by the Average Views/Photo which gives a good indication of the overall “quality” of all photos taken by each Local Guide. This is simply calculated by dividing the Local Guide’s total photo views value by the number of publicly visible contributed photos. Of course the use of the term “quality” here refers to the attractiveness of the photos to the Google AI and the viewing public. - Where shown, [ ] around leaderboard sequence numbers indicate that this is the first time that the Local Guide has participated on the Top 100 Local Guides leaderboards.
- Where shown, ( ) around leaderboard sequence numbers indicate that this Local Guide levelled up/down onto this leaderboard.
- An asterisk (*) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Connect Moderator.
- Double asterisks (**) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Googler.
- Hovering over a Local Guide’s username will display the integration number that integrates that Local Guide’s details on the Leaderboards System and Connect; the umbilical chord if you will between the two disparate systems.
- Selecting a Connect Usernames will take you to that Local Guide’s Connect Profile.
- To provide a level playing field, Local Guides that should but don’t provide/update their video impact data will be excluded from all photo views leaderboards. In this case, Local Guides that make it onto the media views leaderboard will be shown with a [3] superscript following Connect username. To avoid being excluded from photo views leaderboards, Local Guides must use the Leaderboard System to update their video impact value.
- Local Guides suspended or who have left the Local Guides program as well as those who have hidden their Maps profile are excluded from the Photo Views Leaderboards.
- A ? or the words “Not set” in a cell indicates that the respective value hasn’t been provided by or cannot be determined for the respective Local Guide.
- The data for the leaderboards in this post was read at 1145 on Monday, June 2, 2025 (UTC).
- If you’re a participating Local Guide you must check the leaderboards for any errors or omissions and if you find any, then please add the details in a comment on this post. Regarding omissions, please note point 10 above.