What does the local guides program mean to you?

For me Google Maps is a great companion to find new places and explore new restaurants, shopping malls, hotels. First, I was a normal user wherein I used to checkout pictures of the place and read the reviews of places before visiting, after a while I started receiving notifications from Maps to share the reviews and photos of where I had been, so I started giving the reviews, ratings and uploading the photos. Now google maps has become an important app to find places and also helping people by leaving a review, adding photos and answering their questions. Being a local guide allows me to help small businesses to add their place to the Google Maps network and adding photos and reviews of their business. I use google maps many times a day by answering questions of people about a movie theater, restaurants, hotels, leaving ratings and reviews. It helps someone to know about the place beforehand – which seats are the best to watch the movie, which food items are a specialty of a restaurant, which hotels are the best in the area. It provides information to the people about the place they are visiting.

One of my best contributions to google maps has to be my native place Sai Prasad and its so compelling that it has helped so many people to find a home stay in a rural area.

The second-best place review must be my visit to Sindhudurg Fort. The photos have helped a lot of people visiting the place and know the historic place.

Review of Sindhudurg Fort - By Nikhil Sawant

I also love the monthly emails which I get from being a local guide, it helps me to show how many people I have helped and also gives interesting highlights of how many points I have earned and how many places I have contributed to. Recently I had also been lucky to receive a pair of local guides socks, I was so overwhelmed that my contributions do mean a lot to people around the world.

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Your pictures are very great @nikhilsawant7 ! Good luck for your application ! :star2: