My name is Oluwaseun Sokeye, some of my friends call me Kingsheggy. I currently live in Nigeria and I have been using google maps since I entered University in 2013. I used the map to commute from one location to the other and a lot of my friends kept saying the google maps will be the end of me but come 2020 with my unresisting way of using google maps I have been able to convince my friends and family to use google maps. My happiest conversion was my dad, my dad now uses google maps before he goes out to get directions to places. I became a local guide I would say in 2017 when I went to further my studies in UK and it has been quite a lovely journey. I have shared and read opinions before I went to new places in Cardiff where I studied and in other cities I visited while I was in the UK. When I moved back to Nigeria, I came back with so much passion to help change the narrative even better. My biggest challenge has been able to alert and help change directions on google maps. Nigeria is a peculiar country with directions often changing based on human intervention and citizens often get into trouble with the local authorities because of the direction gotten from google maps. I have severally been stopped by police men and was extorted at different locations for one way driving which google maps would have directed me to take, but my biggest upset was not that I even got in trouble or was extorted but that I couldn’t inform the next driver as a local guide that this was the situation and they shouldn’t fall victim like I was. This is what the local guide program means to me the ability to give the next person information that would be beneficial to them.
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Hi @KingSheggy ,
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