Caption: The T100 System, Leaderboard’s nerve center! Planning the August Roads Leaderboards. The photo on the laptop screen taken by @AdamGT, is of the West Gate Bridge, one of Melbourne’s most vital and recognisable infrastructure landmarks and one of the busiest road corridors in Australia.
Introduction
Welcome to the third edition of our Roads Leaderboards, dedicated entirely to celebrating mapping contributions and road editing achievements from Local Guides across the globe! It includes:
An overall top 100 leaderboard celebrating the highest Roads contributors across all Local Guide levels;
Dedicated leaderboards highlighting the top 100 Local Guides at each individual level (Level 10 down to Levels 1–5), showcasing mapping talents from every rank;
Country-specific leaderboards presenting the top roads contributors within each country, as well as the Top 3 contributors per nation;
And, to be soon added, dedicated Roads Movers & Shakers board celebrating the highest month-over-month growth, and a Roads Newbies board recognizing new participants joining the rankings for the first time.
The Leaderboards series is designed to celebrate, analyze, and inspire the outstanding efforts of Local Guides worldwide. To explore all leaderboard posts and related content, visit the full index here.
Want to join?
No matter your level, whether you’re a star Level 10 mapper or just starting out with road edits, there’s a place on these boards for you. Participation is straightforward—simply Register your interest or comment below for assistance. We’re excited to see you rise and shine on the Roads Leaderboards!!
This post forms part of a series of Leaderboard posts each covering different aspects of the Maps contributions made by Local Guides across the globe. To see an index to the current Leaderboard series and related posts, simply hit this link. Alternatively, you can scroll through The BIG List.
Readme - How to read the Roads leaderboards (August, 2026)
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 Local Guide roads contributions of hundreds of participating Local Guides from all over the world. As well as an overall leaderboard ranking the top 100 Local Guides by roads, you will see leaderboards for different Local Guide levels which provide you with direct comparisons of your *roads contributions * with that of your peers. Additionally, leaderboards are included that showcase the top Local Guides roads contributions in each country.
Where shown, [ ] around leaderboard sequence numbers indicate that this is the first time that this 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 on 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 indicate that that Local Guide is a Googler.
The Leaderboards System uses 8 different superscripts to indicate the varying states of a Local Guide’s Maps and Connect profiles. On the Roads Leaderboards a superscript of [1] indicates that while the Local Guide is included on the roads leaderboards, because their Maps profile was hidden at the time of reading the data for this month’s Leaderboards, they will not be included on this month’s Photo Views and star media leaderboards (see point 14 below)!
Local Guides suspended or who have left the Local Guides program are excluded from the Roads Leaderboards.
If you have changed (a) your Connect username, or (b) your Maps profile in some way (e.g. changed your username or profile picture), (c) your Maps profile status from public to hidden or vice versa then you may not appear on one or more of the leaderboards. If so then you must provide the details in a comment on this post.
Hovering over a Local Guide’s username will display the 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 username will take you either to that Local Guide’s Connect Profile or to their HUB.
If a number is displayed in a small gray circle following a username, that number indicates the number of times anyone has selected that username to visit the respective Local Guide’s Connect profile or HUB.
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.
Usernames shown as @Anonymous have either been deleted from or have left the Local Guides program.
The data for the leaderboards in this post was read at 1315 on Thursday, September 3, 2026 (UTC).
Local Guides included on the leaderboards must check their entries for any errors. If you should find any errors or omissions, please add the details in a comment on this post. Regarding omissions, please note point 12 above.
As you will appreciate, producing the Leaderboards is a massive task and you will have noticed over recent weeks, I have been trying to improve the user experience, especially on mobile. This has involved lots of changes, trial and error and so on.
As well as all this, I’ve been making quite a few back of house changes trying to make things easier for me as well as reducing the time it takes to prepare and post the leaderboards so that it makes it easier for everyone to check their data against their Maps profiles - we don’t want to be checking the August leaderboards at the end of September when it’s time to enter prepare our September data! So some of these errors that you’re seeing, are a result of all this work happening at this time. It should all stabilise after this month’s full suite of leaderboards are posted..
Thank you all for you diligence, patience and understanding and always remember, together we can and we will.
Thank you so much, @AdamGT, for your kindness and for taking the time to explain the importance of publishing the Leaderboards in a timely manner.
That said, I personally would not categorise such an occurrence as an “error.” I understand that publishing the Leaderboards is not simply a matter of clicking a button; it involves a step-by-step process, with the Leaderboards being reviewed and updated progressively, one by one.
I believe we simply need to be a little patient and allow the process to reach its completion, including your final comments. Once that is done, everyone’s thoughts and comments are, of course, welcome and add value to the discussion.
I learnt this perspective from you quite some time ago, and I have always appreciated the thoughtfulness and patience behind your approach. It has helped me better understand the effort and process that goes into bringing these Leaderboards to the community.
Above all, thank you for the tremendous effort, time and consistency you continue to put in for everyone. What I admire even more is the humility with which you do it. Your dedication and willingness to serve the community are truly appreciated.
Thank you once again, Adam, for everything you do for the community.