As well as being Connect’s 5th Birthday, July is the first anniversary of these photo views leaderboards so hooray, hooray! Can you believe it, we made it? It’s been one year! And what a journey it’s been, sheeesh! Yes this all started when many of us were in lockdown or travel restricted and thus unable to get out there doing our usual guiding. While in lock down I needed something different to do and while browsing through photos of my travels, the idea of leaderboards sprung to my mind. I must have been having a nightmare lol. Only joking Yes I kicked it off in July 2020 and through amazing engaging discussion with fellow Local Guides, and I’m pleased to say that most are still with us here today, and with the continued input of ideas, the leaderboards evolved into what they are today, fun, competitive and motivational, yet educational and full of interesting and different ways of looking at our photo views performance. If you want to learn how to improve your photos and get better photo views, then this is a good place to start. What’s certain is that…you’ll get hooked, you’ll get motivated, you’ll have fun, and you’ll learn heaps about photo on Google Maps!
As most will know by now, there are two streams. The first is dedicated to what I called “star photos” and for each one of us, our “star photo” is that single photo with the most views on Google Maps. It’s usually a surprise which photo turns out to be our star! If you haven’t already done so, you can find out more about this and submit your own “star photo” by visiting the Leaderboards of the Top 100 Most Viewed Photos post. The second stream, and this is where you are now, looks at the photo view performance of all your photos and if you want to learn about or share your own photo views achievements, then this is the right place! Hundreds of Local Guides participate and you can too and what’s more, you do not have to be a “top gun” Level 10 Local Guide with millions of photo views!! In fact, this month a Level 7 Local Guide tops the chart! Let me explain.
These leaderboards have been specifically designed so that Local Guides at any level can participate, and you’ll see many do. So whether you are an entry level Local Guide or from a small town or village, or a top level Local Guide from London, New York, Paris or New Delhi, you can join in and it’s simple to do! Just submit this form! Within a day or two after submitting your entry form you will be added to the Who’s next to be added list and you should check this for further instructions. Then sit back to be added in the next update of the leaderboards in early August. To find out more, you can read the following:
- Structure of the Top 100 Photo Views Leaderboards
- FAQs and the Participation Rules, Terms & Conditions
- What other Local Guides say about the leaderboards
This comment and this subsequent one will give a good idea on how this is more than just about bragging about your photo views achievements
Conclusion:
So I hope you all enjoy our first anniversary edition of the Top 100 Photo Views Leaderboards which follows on from the Top 100 Photo Views Leaderboards of June, 2021. Keep in mind that these posts are more than just seeing who has the best photos or the most photo views. Being able to look at our photo performance in different ways as well as in relative terms to that of other Local Guides and our peers in a fun and friendly way, posts like these are a way of showing us how we can improve our personal contributions, improve the quality of being a Local Guide, and thus lead to better information on Google Maps; it’s a win-win-win. If it were not for Connect it would be very difficult if not impossible to do this. Connect gives us the opportunity to connect and engage with each other on posts like this. So join in
Before signing out, if you haven’t as yet seen it then check out the Happy Anniversary Challenge!!post
Adam