What does the Local Guides program mean to me

Hi my name is Hrayr I am 30 years old and I live in Yerevan, by me in the most beautiful city in the world. I love travel and I have already visited many countries like as Germany Netherlands Belgium Bulgaria Turkey Georgia Thailand and etc. But also I love to travel in my hometown and I like to discover for myself a new street, house, building,cafe, restaurant, special tree or view every time I walk in Yerevan. Also in usual daylife we are going to find some places for work or for meeting with friend or with a new work partner, and within this processes we are being in a new corners of our city. In all this situations I used to use Google Maps to find some places buildings and addresses as in my country it is the best way to do so.

Once I was in a hurry and was trying to find a new opened bank branch office in which I agreed to meet my business partner. Unfortunately I couldn’t find the place and I was late. And that was the reason that I asked myself how Google knows about all the places in my little country or in other countries that I was. After that I started to search in Google the info about this and can you realize how I was surprised when I knew that all the information which I can see in Google maps is added by people like me. It seems that when I tried to find something on Google Maps every time there was some person who helped me to do so.They named Local Experts.

I was impressed by realizing that people helps each other and the organizer of that humanitarian work is Google. After that I realized my social commitment and had infinite desire to participate to the Local Guide program and to help people as much as I can.And now I am here and I hope that my photos, reviews or feedback helps people who live in my country or visit it for holidays or more.

One thing more: the photo of that new opened bank branch has been viewed for about 2,800,000 times, and this is the best appraisal for me.

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Hi @Hrayr

Thank you for your post. It seems it’s an application for this year’s event Connect Live 2020. Make sure you read our guidelines on writing a great application for Connect Live. Follow these tips to create your Connect Live 2020 Video Application.

Don’t forget to check our tips on creating Google Maps lists, which will be an important part of your Connect Live application.

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