Introduction
The Points, Photo Views and Star Photos leaderboards regularly posted here on Connect, each look at a specific but different aspect of our Maps contributions. Based on various metrics, including the number of points and the number of photo views, the participants on these leaderboards are listed without giving any consideration to their respective country location.
However, it goes without saying, Local Guides in smaller countries or one where there are significantly less guiding opportunities, such as Barbados, Cameroon, Rwanda, would have less chance of gaining enough points or photo views than those in larger countries such as the United States, Canada, France or UK and therefore, Local Guides in these smaller countries have less chance of getting onto the leaderboards based strictly on points or photo views!
Local Heroes > Local Stories
The leaderboards in this post, which follow on from those in the equivalent June 2023 post, are different because they specifically take into account the country location of the participating Local Guides and in this way, they give Local Guides from even the smallest countries (true local heroes) recognition and an opportunity to be seen as “stars” in their country, and you will see many are. There are many great local stories on the country leaderboards!
Together with their country flag, this month we have Local Guides featured from 80 different countries! If you’re a Local Hero or your country isn’t listed then it should be and you can make this happen by registering for participation. It’s simple to do, just hit this link. If you want to know more see this excellent How-to post by @AZ_2021.
The Cover GIF and photos
Worldwide there are many celebrations in the month of July. First July, known as Canada Day, marked the anniversary of the enactment of the Canadian Constitution Act, 1867, which united three colonies into a single country called Canada. Then celebrated in the United States, on 4th July it was Independence Day, commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 declaring the United States as an independent nation. Next, celebrated in France on July 14th, it’s Bastille Day which commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789. This marked the beginning of the French Revolution. It is a national holiday in France. Finally, celebrated in Peru on July 28th and 29th is Fiestas Patrias, the national holiday commemorating Peru’s independence from Spain.
It’s a national holiday in each of these countries and the festivities include parades, concerts, traditional dances, music, fireworks, and various cultural events. I’m sure we’ll very soon start seeing many posts in Connect about these celebrations.
Of course we mustn’t forget that this forum was launched in July 2016 and so we will be celebrating Connect’s 7th birthday on 15th July and there can be little doubt that there will be many celebrations and we will see many posts about this special birthday and some have already leapt out of the drawing board. You can read about the Unofficial Local Guides Connect Worldwide 7th Birthday Celebration post by @KashifMisidia and the Chennai LGC 7th Birthday Meetup - PhotoWalk & Knowledge Sharing Session posts by @TravellerG . and I do hope that you will join in to these fabulous Connect &th Birthday initiaitives.
Finally, later in July it will be the 3rd anniversary of the Top 100 Leaderboard posts, yay!!!
The cover GIF of course includes the American flag flown all over America and not only on 4th July!
Wishing everyone an awesome July everyone.
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