What does the Local Guides program mean to you?

[Navid_Ebdaei]

In fact, to me, being a local guide means**, helping other people, working together to make better world for everyone, friendship and enjoy, even improve myself.**

The Local Guides program start to change my life and my point of view after I saw something like this in my inbox

Tue, May 30, 2017
Thanks for adding photos to Google Maps!
Inbox

Google Maps google-maps-noreply@google.com

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Thanks for sharing!

Your new photos are a great addition to Google Maps

Millions of people rely on photos like yours when they search for places. Thanks for sharing your photos with the world.

What’s new in the past week

New views 2 Total views 2

New photos 2 Total photos 2

You’re invited to join Local Guides!

It was amazing, there were only 2 numbers of very ordinary, non-professional photos taken and uploaded by me, just because of my curiosity, but google invited me to join local guide program/community!!??

But ! wait a moment Navid, Woooooooooow just 2 photos and 2 views in couple of weeks!!! ??? and google is claiming that millions of people could rely on photos like mine.

Then I thought by myself, what would be Google Maps look like when thousands and thousands of people share their photos on it, especially when they discovering something special around their hometown but not included in google map. And how much it could be helpful for other people to find locations and buildings easier, when they know what they are look like.

This is a famous hospital in Karaj-Iran, it had been added into google maps, but without any photo, so I took some and upload into it, amazingly it becomes my first most popular photos in Google maps with more than 1,000,000 views.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ghaem+Hospital/@35.8125351,50.9759879,17z/data=!4m8!1m2!2m1!1z2YLYp9uM2YUg2KjbjNmF2KfYsdiz2KrYp9mGINqp2LHYrA!3m4!1s0x3f8dbfb7b2c3b57b:0x3cd3798916fddc73!8m2!3d35.8121692!4d50.9777946?hl=en

So I decided to continue to taking and uploading many photos from everywhere, anywhere, and I did my best to improve my photo shooting skills too.

Right now I have uploaded more than 5000 photos, taken from many different places that have been viewed 17,000,000 times on Google Maps.

And this one was my third popular one

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Astara+Bird+Park/@38.3963623,48.8673427,19z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m12!1m6!3m5!1s0x4022143520ba9403:0xd63ec88de89b69e!2sAstara+Bird+Park!8m2!3d38.3963613!4d48.8678899!3m4!1s0x4022143520ba9403:0xd63ec88de89b69e!8m2!3d38.3963613!4d48.8678899?hl=en

afterward my local guide journey has been continued

Also during this enjoy full journey, I gradually became more interested and more familiar with other ways that I can help people and societies with adding my ideas into google map.

For instance, by writing 370 reviews for wide variety of places such restaurants, malls, outdoors, parks, pharmacies, and etc. that have seen more than 170,000 times,

I could share my feeling and understanding about the character, atmosphere, facilities of them as well as describing the beauty, vibes and the quality of services you may receive.

Finally, because I love to learn about other cultures and love to know about beauty of diverse nature’s, I hope to find new friends from all around the world too.

PS: Video Application Connect 2020 is accessible here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZXnirvSiOk

[Navid_Ebdaei]

This is my real story about Local Guides program

[AngieYC]

Hello @Navid_Ebdaei ,

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.

If you need some tips on how to create it, please check out the How to write a great application post for Connect Live 2020 and Connect Live applications are now open posts.

[Austinelewex]

Hello @Navid_Ebdaei

I could see you have done greatly well on Google maps.

All the same, I wish you Goodluck with your application for connect live.

Best regards And Stay safe.

Austin

[Navid_Ebdaei]

Hi dear Austin

Thank you very much for your complement and nice words.

It seems we have same sense about the nature and its beauties.

I have just checked few of your photos and achievements, but up to know I should say all of them were great and amazing.

I hope you will be success in all aspect of your life too

Good luck

Navid

[MariaNgo]

@Navid_Ebdaei Thanks for sharing about what local guides means to you. Keep up the great job! Your photos are making a difference.

[Navid_Ebdaei]

Hi @MariaNgo
I should thank you for your nice words and inspiration.
I am new, and am gradually become more familiar with Local Guides Connect, and I’ll do my best to post photos as much as I could

[OmarBD]

Hello @Navid_Ebdaei The story really awesome. I wish you all the very best.

Regards.

[Ale_003]

You’ve been doing it great! Good luck @Navid_Ebdaei

[Navid_Ebdaei]

Thank you Dear @OmarBD
I wish you all the best too

[Navid_Ebdaei]

Thank you Dear @Ale_003
In fact your posts and creativity inspired me a lot