Top 100 Google Maps Local Guides Photos (November, 2025)

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Readme - How to Read the Photo Views leaderboards (November, 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.

  1. 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 Top 100 Leaderboards showcasing the top average views per media and average views per photo which give a good indication of the overall “quality” of all media and photos taken by each Local Guide. This is simply calculated by dividing the Local Guide’s total media (photo) views value by the number of publicly visible contributed media (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.
  2. 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.
  3. Where shown, ( ) around leaderboard sequence numbers indicate that this Local Guide levelled up/down onto this leaderboard.
  4. An asterisk (*) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Connect Moderator.
  5. Double asterisks (**) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Googler.
  6. 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.
  7. Selecting a Connect username will take you to either that Local Guide’s Connect Profile or to their Brick on the Wall of Fame. If a number is displayed in small gray circle following a username, that number indicate the number of times anyone has selected that username to visit the respective Local Guide’s Connect profile or Brick in the Wall.
  8. To provide a level playing field, Local Guides that should but don’t provide/update their video impact data will not be included in photo views leaderboards. In this case, Local Guides that make it onto the media views leaderboards will be shown with a [1] 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. Due to a recent major change in the way the System manages profile data, as a temporary measure a superscript of [2] following a Local Guide’s username is being used to indicate that as far as the System is concerned, at the time of reading the data for this month’s Leaderboards that user’s data appears compliant with the requirements for participation on all leaderboards. The [2] superscript will not be shown from next month.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
    1. The data for the leaderboards in this post was read at 1120 on Tuesday, December 2, 2025 (UTC).
  12. 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.
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