Top 100 Local Guides Reviews (February, 2026)

[AdamGT]

Well done @LingLing Keep guiding and keep achieving and do make sure that like for a number of other metrics, you follow the recommendation mentioned here regarding the use of the Google Maps app to check and update your review counts at least once each month.

[AdamGT]

Yes 2 good points that you mention @WilfriedB. First, the metric labels are shown in your own language and secondly, the red warning your given when and where you need it - at the point of data entry. This will help you realize your typos before committing your data and will hopefully also save having to repost the leaderboards after correcting such errors.

[09halu]

how do you guys update local guide data? I log in to https://top100localguides.com/home.php and nothing I can do over here

[tony_b]

@09halu

how do you guys update local guide data?

Hello @09halu, you need to go to the Data Entry tab, then select Maps Data on the dropdown menu.

[09halu]

after i logged in with my google account, it is blank black on top and there is no menu to select

before i can log in with user name and password. suddenly, i got Verified access for Bona Fide Local Guides. Blacklisted?

[AdamGT]

Hello @09halu

For improved security reasons the login has all change on the Leaderboard System. Please try again now and let us know how you go.

Thanks @tony_b for jumping in to assist Mac…I think I have sorted it out now. We’ll wait until we hear back from Mac..

[claude_richard]

Bonjour,
Merci @AdamGT pour l’énorme travail que vous avez effectué sur le TOP 100 concernant les modifications, améliorations et fiabilisation de la récupération automatique des données mensuelles. J’ai installé le T100 Scout en utilisant le tutoriel mis en ligne par @WilfriedB (merci à lui). C’est effectivement assez simple et beaucoup de données sont récupérées automatiquement. Après vérification des données récupérées, j’ai constaté des erreurs sur les données du Badge Photos, du Badge Vidéo et également des Avis. Le problème que je rencontre, c’est que je ne peux pas rectifier les données erronées des lignes suivantes :

• Ligne 20 - Impact Photos
• Ligne 23 - Impact Vidéos
• Ligne 25 - Avis.
  Sur ces 3 lignes, le système s’est contenté de récupérer les données du mois précédent. Je constate d’autre part qu’on ne peut pas saisir plus de 4 chiffres sur chaque champ de saisie. J’ai pu mettre à jour les lignes 18, 19, 21, 22 et 24, mais pas les 20, 23 et 25.
  Comment faut-il faire pour rectifier ces 3 lignes ?
  Merci pour votre aide et vos explications.

[WilfriedB]

Bonjour @claude_richard

@claude_richard

On these three lines, the system simply retrieved the data from the previous month.

Lines 18 through 25 (badge and review) must always be added manually, since they only appear in the smartphone app and scout cannot retrieve them for us.

@claude_richard

. I also noticed that no more than four digits can be entered in each input field.

This works fine for me:

Can you make a screenshot what happens, if you try to enter more than four digits? I only entered the digits. The thousands separators are added automatically. That is, a period (.) is added during typing, because of German number format and a comma (,) shows after saving.

[claude_richard]

Merci @WilfriedB pour votre réponse. Je viens d’essayer à nouveau. Voici la copie d’écran :

Lorsque je saisis le 5e chiffre, le système efface tout à l’exception du premier chiffre, un bug probablement lié au format de chiffre. J’ai trouvé à l’instant un moyen de contourner le problème temporairement en faisant un copier-coller à partir du Bloc-notes de W indows. Exemple : le nombre de mes photos est 117297342. Puisque le 1er chiffre (le 1) reste en place dans le champ de saisie, impossible de l’effacer, je copie et je colle 17297342 à la suite, sans espace entre les chiffres, et ça fonctionne. Mais en saisie au clavier, il y a bien un bug et il m’est impossible de rentrer un nombre de plus de 4 chiffres.

[WilfriedB]

Thanks for the screenshot and finding a workaround @claude_richard! Hopefully @AdamGT finds the cause …

[AdamGT]

@claude_richard

I just found a temporary workaround by copying and pasting from Windows Notepad .

Annoying teething problems with the new UI @claude_richard but as @WilfriedB has mentioned, it’s good that you found a workaround and importantly, that you tried the new system now rather than during the 11th hour end of month update period.

Not that it might help you in this case (badge data) but an even simpler workaround which I myself sometimes use with large numbers like photoviews, is to copy the number directly on Maps and paste it into the T100 System. Anyhow, I have had a look at the data entry screen again so have another go and et us know how you go.

Thanks for jumping in to help here Wilfried.

[tony_b]

@AdamGT

Not that it might help you in this case (badge data) but an even simpler workaround which I myself sometimes use with large numbers like photoviews, is to copy the number directly on Maps and paste it into the T100 System.

That would work for those who are using phone only @AdamGT, but I understand @claude_richard to be reading the badge data from the phone and entering it into the chart on desktop as I would normally do.

[AdamGT]

Oh I wasn’t sure how @claude_richard was using the new system @tony_b but anyway, I hope I have fixed that bug. Will wait to hear back from him.

In the meantime, did you got yours going? Did the old PC come good? Did you try the other alternative methods on both the work laptop and home PC? I’d be interested to know.

[WilfriedB]

@AdamGT

Not that it might help you in this case (badge data) but an even simpler workaround which I myself sometimes use with large numbers like photoviews, is to copy the number directly on Maps and paste it into the T100 System.

@AdamGT and @tony_b, I do it often even between phone and PC. MyPhoneExplorer allows me for copy and paste between Android and Windows in both directions. I use it often to enter the captions.

When @claude_richard mentioned copy/paste, I immediately had the idea to do so for badge data too! However, the reason why it doesn’t work for badge data is the Maps app. Unlike many other apps on the toy, at that point it does not allow to copy the numbers, as I tried it yesterday.

[claude_richard]

Bonjour @AdamGT, je viens de faire une nouvelle tentative sur 2 ordinateurs différents et je constate que le problème persiste. Je ne peux toujours pas saisir de nombres supérieurs à 4 chiffres sur les indicateurs : Ligne 20 - Impact Photos, Ligne 23 - Impact Vidéos, Ligne 25 - Avis.
Le copié-collé des valeurs fonctionne toujours et les calculs se font normalement après la validation par le bouton en bas de page.

[09halu]

thanks @AdamGT it’s working now

[tony_b]

@AdamGT

In the meantime, did you got yours going? Did the old PC come good?

Yes @AdamGT, it worked on the old PC, and then of course I’m seeing that result when I access the site on the work PC. That’s not a dependable option though, as it often doesn’t work for days or weeks at a time.

@AdamGT

Did you try the other alternative methods on both the work laptop and home PC?

Yes, I tried the alternative method on both laptops and it doesn’t look quite right. Points went down by about 300, while all else remained the same.

At this point it appears that manual entry would be my best bet.

[tony_b]

@WilfriedB

I do it often even between phone and PC. MyPhoneExplorer allows me for copy and paste between Android and Windows in both directions

You’re the real tech guru around here @WilfriedB. I had no idea this was a possibility. Now please tell us how.

[WilfriedB]

I don’t consider myself a guru @tony_b, but the first time I saw and worked with a computer is more than half a century ago. SO, I had time enough to learn …

In my Windows PC, I use a free tool called MyPhoneExplorer, it allows to do 99% of all you can do on Android to perform on your PC, provided, they are close to each other. The connection can be via WLAN, USB or Bluetooth.

Mainly by synchronizing calendar, address book and other information with the PC, but there are also hotkeys Copy clipboard from PC to phone and Copy clipboard from phone to PC. The former is the one I use most frequently just by typing into a text editor, copy to phone and then pasting where it needs to go. But you also can type directly into the phone, i.e. while you type on the PC keyboard, you can see letter by letter arriving on the screen of the phone.

As far as I know, meanwhile Windows 10 has similar capabilities, but I never looked into details what the difference might be.

As example of today, within 15 minutes I copied the name of six dishes from the photo^[1] of the menu list and pasted it as captions to the photos uploaded an hour earlier.

1. To copy text from a photo, I use the Windows Power Toys.

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[tony_b]

@WilfriedB

In my Windows PC, I use a free tool called MyPhoneExplorer, it allows to do 99% of all you can do on Android to perform on your PC, provided, they are close to each other. The connection can be via WLAN, USB or Bluetooth.

Thank you. I’ve bookmarked this for action at a later date. As said earlier, my home laptop malfunctions, and I don’t want to attempt too many more experiments on my work laptop.