Dear Readers,
I am associated with Google Local Guides from last one years but before that also I use to contribute to Google Maps and its related apps.
I love visiting places, meeting new people and my work takes me to places around the world. Frankly, I was not the kind of person who would contribute to such a thing (Google has better tools to do it). But last time when I visited Cape Town, I saw there are many people like me who would like to know information about popular shops to buy stuff, eat, shopping, souvenirs and so on.
That is how it started, I started posting pictures of places I visited (after research of course) and if genuinely liked it I will put it on Google maps along with a photo so that people don’t find it difficult to search a good place to eat, shop and roam around.
So far I have been doing this for the love of the place, people and culture and it makes me feel so good that I can help so many people just by posting the places I visited… Now the time is, I encourage everyone around me to post on google maps with photos so that it can be used by someone needy and I would make google maps stronger and competitive in the market.Caption: A photo of a crowd on a street in Sao Paulo, Brazil taken from above.(Getty Images)