Dear Happy GoogleMaps Contributer,
I want to tell you today what makes my heart beat faster as a Local Guide. In fact due to a traffic jam I was must to leave the highway, after I have had already busy 900 km in the car behind me.
But the trouble was so quickly forgotten, because I discovered a new shopping mall! Maybe not fully new, but at least for me and as I could find out with once for the satellite from Google as well. It is between the Hypermarket Auchan and the highway A4 in Poland, close to the city Gliwice. https://goo.gl/maps/spZG1B1jLRz
When you zoom close to the picture you can find some random stores, but in the new shopping mall are much more. I took a picture before starting adding.
This is for me as if I had found a treasure. The slot machine now releases his point jackpot. In this moment I change to be a player. I need for this in the mall about 45 minutes, because I need to ensure to have no recognisable people on the picture. I need to see how the security reacts and I need to see how the people around me will react.
I only load up only one or two pictures via my mobile phone, to be 100% sure to have been there, the rest I do via WLAN later the day or within the next days.
In fact, nearly every day I need to load up some pictures before going to sleep. This I will do now and show you tomorrow my edit list. As I use mostly two different smartphones, I hope the time setting will work proper.
Now is the next morning AND up to now, I can find under edits around 27 new approved places and several pending:
When you search exactly for this place you will already find, but if you look on the same region most of this shops are not showing yet. This will be at least on Monday 15.April 2019.
I have created the places first and after this I did upload the pictures. Every time my other smartphone was “telling” me via vibration, that the creation has been accepted by GoogleMaps. It was such a good feeling Within the next days I will reach my 1.500 added places! This is my passion.
My family is used to see me like this (yesterday they haven’t been with me), many friends or colleagues think I’m crazy, but it is my hobby, like others have football, music or…… It is for me like an augmented reality game.
What is your experience? What is the thrill for you, when thinking about GoogleMaps contribution?