- From the beginning local guide was just a way I use to while away time on Google, I remember I and my friend Rahmat will dressup when we were in school simple to go and take pictures and post them on google map, but then I started getting likes and opportunities to reveiw places,photos and even details of places I have been to, then I felt like wow this isn’t just about pictures and pinning locations, it was more than that because I noticed some wrong details people post on Google maps been the country I am from Nigeria , ritualists are real and it could be a way of deceiving people and its up to me to decide if these details should be accepted or not and so I took it upon myself to either speak for or against those details that were posted, I took it upon my self to rid of those wrong details, and so i started paying more attention to Google maps at a time I was obsessed, my friends would ask me what I was doing and why I am always doing what I was doing so I explainee clearly to them and the next thing they start posting on Google maps too. Mmmm to me been a local guide is to become an eagle eye for your people and also guests within the community,state or country, I want them to come into the country, state and Local Government Areas confidently because of the authentic details I have provided for their guidance. I remember been on the road traveling back to my hometown at Bida Local Government Area and I recieved an email of been popular and that am helping people because the information I provided was helpful, yikes I was so happy and thrilled that my skills are after all paying off. I love Adventures, travelling to places and taking beautiful pictures to keep the memory of a location lit in my heart but been a local guide has made such dreams special by giving me the opportunity to share those memories with the World, plus I get to keep them their forever. What makes it even more special is whenever I loose track of the place I was at a time , I can simply check the google map for the details of my location and the time too , been a local guide has really changed my life in numerous ways because as a local guide I am pretty useful to the society, sometimes it keeps me going local guide program means the world to me.
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Hello @Fatimagidi3 ,
Thanks for sharing!
Since your post looks like an application post for Connect Live 2020, I’d like to let you know that I’ve relabelled your post to Local Stories, as all application posts should be under the Local Stories topic label.
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