TRAC main event 23rd March.We want U

We want you we want all local guides. All hands on deck,community effort is far more productive than a single labour. United we stand,divided we fall etc. These are all the slogan a typical community builder will verify and use in building a community.

I’ll stick in the famous quote “if you want to go fast go alone,but if you want to go far go together”. We want to go very far to improve roads on Google maps. As a result we want to carry all our fellow local guides along together. Please feel free to join this campaign.

  • Please note: This events kicks off exactly on the 23rd of March 2024 and runs through to September 23rd. All being well
  • All participants both old and new should kindly endeavour to fill the form. We want to be sure the old participants wants to continue on the campaign and that new ones wants to join. Lack of activity means exclusion from our periodic charts and news.

How can I join TRAC ???

  • Kindly fill out this :point_right:t3: Form
  • We also kindly request for a screenshot of your profile photo showing the number of roads you have before participating in TRAC
  • Username on connect to be able to access the Google maps profile and to follow your progress as we go along and perhaps tag you on our posts on connect as well.
  • Geographical location
  • There is a link to our telegram group on the form. Feel free to join or not. It’s optional. Nevertheless it’s very interesting interacting closely outside connect.
  • Meet-up and group discussions are a possibility for instructions and motivations
  • We will plan to publish top 10 highest contributors at the end of the event in September all being well.

We have since reviewed the aims,objectives and rules of the initiatives.

  1. We will endeavour not to account for inactive or dormant members(If any) when announcing our results or publishing news of TRAC on connect.
  2. We will be ready to tutor local guides privately until you have at least 10 approved roads before you can officially join TRAC
  3. Accuracy and correct drawing of roads as opposed to rush rush for high figures and shoddy road drawing practices.
  4. We are open to vibrant ideas and ways to better or improve the initiative viz a viz improve roads on Google maps.

What are the requirements for joining?

  1. Particularly must be an active and legitimate local guide.
  2. Participants must have at least X amount of approved roads on their profile. Just to encourage all hands to be on deck.
  3. Your level as a local guide is not a required for joining TRAC

I haven’t any clue about drawing roads and don’t have any approved roads on my profile. Can I still join?

  • The answer is YES. There will be a probation period allowed of which we will be happy to tutor local guides for their first few roads.

Please Note: This is not a competition it’s a simple campaign. It is aimed at creating awareness on drawing roads.It’s also aimed at improving the maps network worldwide. There are no gift or medals at the end of the campaign.it’s a voluntary activity like all local guides activities.

Disclaimer This campaign or post about adding roads, is unofficial and it’s my personal initiative to help improve the maps. Note that any information collected will not be used for any other official purpose outside connect forum.

Look forward to active participation and interactions over this. All questions are highly welcome and we are open to improving and editing this campaign for good

N.B please visit our Index-for-TRAC-All-you-need-to-know. For full detail information on TRAC. @Scheria here you go ! @NgocVu3822 here you are too!

Happy guiding and mapping

Cheers

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Reserved for private use.

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Okay & Thanks for new date announcement @SholaIB

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Pretty detailed and informative post about the kickoff of TRAC main event 2024 @SholaIB and that too which lasts for 6 months.

This is a great opportunity to new as well as for the existing members to participate and learn.

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I’ve filled out the Form and I’m ready to go! Thank you for organizing this campaign again, @SholaIB . We’ll achieve big things through this. I also suspect we’ll create a lot of Level 10 Local Guides from the points generated from adding roads.

To any newbies who want to join us - Please make Quality your top concern, not numbers. Hunting takes time, and the TRAC Stars with 1,000s of roads have all developed their tricks over time, not by just drawing lines all over the map. Start slow, start early, and make great contributions.

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Tagging some LGs who may be interested in joining up this year:

@RochL99 , @NirmalTeja , @Rednewt74 , @MahabubMunna , @LewisW92 , @AMIR_121

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Thank you for taging me @JustJake

I filled the form and waiting to start that campaign.

Hail the local guides :smile:

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@AMIR_121 wrote:

I filled the form and waiting to start that campaign.

Hail the local guides :smiley:

Fantastic news! Welcome aboard, bro.

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@SholaIB I’ve completed the Form and tagging some LGs who might be interested in joining this year. @Scheria , @Tandrima2 , @Mohiuddin4 ,

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https://t.me/+rpYaoOAZqMpjMWUO. Is this Link is Expired? I can’t Join.

@PrasadVR

Thanks, I’m strongly considering it . My concern is being able to keep up the pace.

Scheria

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Thanks for tagging me.

Im not currently at home / in the office so I’m only doing occasional edits through Google Maps on my mobile phone. Actually I got dropped from the Local Guides program and had to appeal the decision, which was successful. Perhaps somebody complained about one of my business reviews?

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Hi, I have signed up for TRAC. I am in the US. Most of my mapping has been in Uzbekistan and Mexico. Here’s a shot of my roads todate

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We all will be there with you . :clinking_glasses:

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Hello sir @SholaIB I have already filled out the forms despite the fact that I have already been a member for a few months I encourage local guides to fill out the form as soon as possible to join the next campaign Thank you all

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Yes I filled out the form.

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Thank you for the invite and opportunity, looking forward to being a better guide :grin:

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Awesome :100:

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Hi @SholaIB !

I already completed the form and I’m ready to start.

Thank you for this initiative!

Cecilia

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Thanks for encouraging me @JustJake . I’ve signed up but I guess I can’t be accepted as I have so few roads on my profile.

After the kick-off event yesterday, I started to experiment using some of the tips from @ErmesT , and some of those roads are already approved. Although I got the confirmation emails and I can see the roads in place, they still don’t reflect in the count on my profile, so I suppose @SholaIB will not observe the movement towards the qualifying minimum number.

Perhaps this delay on Maps is part of the recent issue with photo views not displaying correctly, but I’ll wait patiently for a while.

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