Hello Google and my fellow Local guides all around the world! In this post, I am going to describe what I love to share the most on google maps being a local guide.
It has been a year and a half since I was motivated to be a local guide. It all started when I posted a picture (https://goo.gl/maps/6M5rEHrhff82wRkWA;https://goo.gl/maps/3xH3sS8n7BpyzbPi7) of a plate of Samosa’s (an Indian snack) from an Indian Restaurant in Mexico. Just a few days after that I got a notification from google saying my picture had got many views. Months later, the same picture went popular on maps. This made me realize that I am being really helpful to people by sharing good pictures. My interest in clicking good pictures of new places that I visited kept on growing and I kept on sharing these pictures.
Now, I really love to share good pictures whenever I can. There are many good places to visit but unfortunately, I feel they don’t have good pictures on maps. This way, people like me who love to visit such places tend to neglect them as they are relying so much on maps, that they can’t trust visiting a place before scrolling through its fascinating pictures. This might also ruin good little businesses of people who try to make some profit which relies on the number of visitors. Hence, when I post pictures on maps, I feel really satisfied because I feel I am somewhere helping both these groups of people to achieve their needs/goals. This way, I also started writing reviews about places and give ratings accordingly.
Therefore, I love contributing nice photos of various places especially places without good pictures that I visit whether it is a small restaurant, a building or even a concentration camp (I have shared pictures of this place a few days back :p) and I believe it is definitely helping others by adding some value in their life.