As a Local Guide on Google Maps, I have been adding & modifying details about many places where I have visited or known.
Local guides as a Social Program has embedded in me the sense of responsibility for any place and how anyone can navigate or know about it. To ensure that people who are checking Google Maps for reference or finding places, they do not get the wrong information and land elsewhere.
Such had been the case of mine, when I followed a certain location as listed on the map and reached a place which was about 5kms away from my destination. Since that day I decided to edit & add Google Map locations.
Local Guides program also helps me to gain the knowledge that is known by other people , i.e. different Local Guides from different regions who work to make life & travel easier.
I find it very interesting to write about & find places that exist in the vicinity but remain hidden from public view.
Every Google Map location has a different story from the perspective of a Local Guide, and such stories help to make a community, though virtual, but yet connected to heart’s core.
Google Local Guides Program along with Google Maps & Google Earth has helped me to realize the love for my area, my city, and the world.
Love,
Soumendra Majumder
A Level 7 Local Guide from Barasat, my city.