I think about this question often when writing Reviews, adding Missing Information and keeping an eye out for Missing Places. The answer is always: I love sharing experiences!. I’m the sort of person who sees something or has a great coffee somewhere and I just want to share it with everyone I know… I see a new playground that has been built in my local town and I want to phone all of my friends with children and tell them about it.
That desire to share places and experiences really drives me to add to the Google Maps program. I love being a Local Guide and I’m always looking for missing information or places that have not been added, to help other people.
Tourism is one of the biggest industry’s here in New Zealand, we had around 4 million visitors to our beautiful country last year, to put that into perspective there are only 5 million of my fellow New Zealanders in the whole country. With tourism being so important I take pride in adding those missing places that could potentially help a tourist out, especially in my home town Taupo that relies heavily on tourism.
Last year while on a road trip around the East Cape (One of the more remote parts of New Zealand’s North Island) I was in a urgent need for a bathroom break and I couldn’t find a bathroom listed on Google Maps! I lucky stumbled across one and added it to Google Maps that night. Now I seem to always be on the lookout for missing Public Bathrooms My focus changed a bit from just taking photos of my food to looking for those missing places and details.
I’m looking forward to what the future brings on the Local Guides Platform, my goals for 2020 is to get the Master Directors Badge, Reach Level 9 and connect with other local guides in New Zealand. If you are a Local Guide in NZ lets meet up and share our experiences!
Much love from Aotearoa (NZ | The Land Of the Long White Cloud)
This is interesting. I was right eating a Kiwi and thought about NZ, while I checked now in the internet and it is a fruit from China… I matched Kiwi only with NZ Anyway I know you have a lot, so as I love them I need to come @AdventuresWithRosy
thank you for sharing your experiences as Local Guides, I like your post and the fact of being helpful for others. Btw I love your country, have been several times there and it is one of my favorite country .
Hi @AdventuresWithRosy this very great experince, great picture and great view, can imagine if i be there of course very happy, thank you for share the good place in NZ, hopefully i will be there
@TorM the Kiwi fruit actually came from China and it was called Chinese Gooseberry. The fruit seeds arrived in New Zealand in 1904. The fruit didn’t become a commercial success until the 1950s, and it was decided to change the name to Kiwifruit in 1959. The New Zealand Kiwifruit Marketing Board also grows Kiwifruit in Italy.
Thanks for post @AdventuresWithRosy . The photo of view from Mt. Tauhara reminded me of the many times I hiked up there. The East Cape lighthouse to reminded me of my travels around NZ many times.
Great that you are contributing to Google Maps well.
I find it very special and so naturally beautiful, I’ve been visiting always the area around Auckland and Wellington, but that was enough for me to appreciate it a lot!
My focus changed a bit from just taking photos of my food to looking for those missing places and details.
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