When it comes to media contributions on Maps, we hear a lot about photos and more recently videos. However, another class of media contributed by many Local Guides is 360 spheres and this post is all about such contributions. In particular, it aims to showcase the best of 360 spheres contributed on Maps by Connect Local Guides and when it comes to the “best”, we mean those having the most views. For convenience, we call these star 360 spheres.
Join in, Share and Learn
If you have contributed 360 spheres on Maps, then you can join in and share and learn. It’s simple to do. Just hit this link and register or if you want some help then add a comment in this post and someone will jump in to help you. By sharing our contributions and achievements we can learn a lot about how to improve and achieve even better outcomes in terms of the impact that our Maps contributions have on our communities. We have been doing this successfully with photos for the past few years and more recently we started doing this with video. Now we can do the same with 360 Spheres.
How to Read the Star 360 Spheres leaderboards (November 2023)
Briefly, this is what you need to know about the leaderboards in this post. For more details see the leaderboard documentation:
The leaderboards in this post present details about the star 360 spheres of participating Local Guides from all over the world. If you have contributed 360 spheres on Maps then you will also have a star, it’s your 360 sphere that has the most views.
As well as an overall leaderboard, in time you will see leaderboards for different Local Guide levels which provide you with direct comparisons of your star 360 spheres’ performance with those of your peers. Finally, there’s a leaderboard ranking the top 100 star spheres by average star views per day which gives an indication on how good your star 360 sphere is. To be included in this leaderboard, you must have updated your star spheres’ views in the period since the date of the last average star 360 spheres per day leaderboard as posted here on Connect last month.
The average star views per day is calculated by dividing the star views by the life of the star 360 sphere expressed in days. The life of the star 360 sphere is equal to the number of days between when you first uploaded your star 360 sphere on Maps and the date that you last updated its star views and thus, will be different for each participating Local Guide. Therefore, for accuracy of the information it is important that you enter the correct dates. When it comes to the date that you last updated the star views, point #2 above is very important.
As well as the star views and the date uploaded onto Maps, each listing on the leaderboards shows the Maps Category, and a description (e.g. Storefront, Building or Park) of the respective Local Guide’s star 360s.
If the Maps Category of a star 360 sphere is shown as a link and if the name of the relevant Place of Interest was provided by the respective Local Guide, then hovering over that link will show you the name of the place and selecting that link will take you to a screenshot with details of that place as stored on the Local Guides, 2023 Star 360 sphere post, a “photo album” if you will, of star 360 spheres.
If the Maps Category of a star 360s is shown on a colored background then that star has been selected as one of the best that meets the formatting requirements as specified in the Local Guides, 2023 Star 360 Spheres album post. Select that star’s category and see why it has been rated as one of the best and read more about that star on the “360s album” post.
Selecting any of the Connect Usernames will take you to that Local Guide’s Connect Profile.
Preceding some of the leaderboards, you may see a number of featured star 360s. If so, these are a selection from those that best meet the requirements as detailed in the Star 360s album post.
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.
A ? or the words “Not set” in a cell indicates that the respective value cannot be determined or hasn’t been provided by or for the respective Local Guide.
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 13 above.
I see that I have some formatting problems in the just posted Star 360 Spheres Leaderboards that I need to attend to Thanks for your patience and understanding.
There is always an incremental improvement and thats sustainable @AdamGT . This clearly reflects in Top 100 Star 360s Leaderboard**.** This has the upward trend from 7 to 10 to 14 in September, October and November 2023 respectively.
Not sure whether others have also observed this or not but when I click on October month link for Level 9 Star 360s Views Leaderboard (November 2023), I am getting the below error message.
Thanks for checking the previous month’s links @Kumaarsantosh . That’s the sort of deep checking needed to ensure that the Leaderboards integrate correctly with each other, especially from month to month and for each specific board.
In the broken link case that you’ve discovered, the problem I believe lies in the fact that that specific board didn’t exist in the previous month. so I was trying to link to a non-existing post on Connect. I will try to modify the Connect leaderboards so that they don’t display the month name unless that specific leaderboard exists in that month. Hoping this makes sense.
@AdamGT Upon checking the leaderboards, I noticed that @LightRich occupies 2 places (3 and 4) on the Current Top 100 Star 360s Average Views/Day Leaderboard.
Well I just wanted to make sure that everyone noticed @LightRich 's sports complex 360 sphere @EvaBar LOL. Only joking of course, so thank you for your detailed checking and finding the duplication. I will correct this shortly now corrected this and @AT_Rome and everyone after him have moved up one position on the Average Views/Day board yay!!!
Thanks for your patience and understanding.