What is like a Jackpot for a Local Guide ?!?!

[TorM]

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.

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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?

[Sagir]

Hi @TorM its always super great to see that your contribution on map is live and knowing that it will help someone to make an informed decision is another moment of joy…

thanks for sharing your experience with us…

kind regards

Sagir

[Marianis]

Hi @TorM , I feel the same with you when I can create a place on Google Maps. For the first time, I am little bit confuse how to add that place. Again, I found the way by googling :). After that, place creation is my pleasure :).

[TorM]

@Sagir happy to tell you this here. I think here are the only people who understand this flash.

@Marianis , yes creating of Places is feeling such good. In central Europe it is more and more difficult, as the places are already, but exactly this makes it like a kind of goldrush .

[TorM]

Something does not work proper :

When I now go to a created place like https://maps.app.goo.gl/GFLVy

All seems to be correct, but when I press the location button it shows me this part of the world…

I would say, that is not really in Poland …

[TorM]

Oh, now the green has already some new stores The view count has now started as well.

[JeanRV]

Hello @TorM

I just checked your Google Maps contributor profile and I discovered that your number of point to-day 196 856 is now greater than mine 195 478.

May be it is thanks to the jackpot you describe in this post, or maybe it is simply German efficency.

Anyway, congratulations! I have been impressed by your contributions to Google maps since I discovered them.

[TorM]

Really, I got you ???! @JeanRV

Oh, we really should meet for a contribution session. If UK will leave the EU (what I absolutely do not want), than this year in summer a trip to France is possible. But not sure if than we will visit the region around Nice…

I still cry for Notre Dame…

[csonmonika]

Wow, that really is impressive! Good job on the edits!

[ErmesT]

Well done @TorM

yes , I agree. I’ve found my “golden mine” a few months ago. New mall in town, just opened.

The experience was exactly like yours. A continuous vibration telling me “applied - applied - applied”

Unfortunately just a few shopping place were already opened, so I came back one month later, for a lunch with my wife (LOL). She added some business too, so she didn’t complained about stopping for lunch in a mall (Double LOL).

[TorM]

@ErmesT ,

I know exactly what you talking about Our wives need to have patience with us, when we are on a picture hunt

By the way, when opening the places, you have as well the issue with the Golf of Guinea? I have now two posts where I try to clarify the issue. Not sure if it is understandable…

[OlgaKlimchik]

@TorM I envy you. My country Belarus is restricred to add new places till now. Of course I don’t know such amount of new objects as you, but maps become more outdated every day. Now I can’t even add the photos, because there are not places for that photos

[To_paul]

Hi @TorM I also discovered a small gold deposit, with the expansion of Shopping City Galati, I added enough locations, but then they were deleted by someone, I’m really sorry that I left and will leave a lot of money in those places
Thank

[TorM]

Dear @OlgaKlimchik

I’m quite sure that an update will be available as well in your country at a given time.

have you tried it in the last weeks, because I can see places in Belarus with pictures

[OlgaKlimchik]

@TorM Thank you, everything is ok now, I can add, rename and other during some months already, but the restriction was long, more than a half a year, and it was very sad to feel myself so limited.