Hello everyone ,
I am Abid from Bangladesh.
What’s the benefits/gifts are available right now for Google local guides?
Isn’t there is any value to google giving our precious time & data around us?
And why earlier Google send gifts to local guides and now doesn’t?
Hello @abidkhaaan
Joining Google Local Guides programme is voluntary.
There wouldn’t be any compensation for contributions other than the points, badges and occasional perks.
The real reward is the joy of helping the people, & then receiving likes or up-votes to the reviews & photos when somebody appreciates that.
The answer to your question, @abidkhaaan , also depends on how you define benefits. Here is my personal take on it.
If you are asking if you will get compensation for the time you put into writing your reviews then the answer is no. You get points, but they have no value other than indicating how much you have contributed to Google Maps (quantity measure). So, it makes sense that we get more points for more detailed reviews.
Being a Local Guide is seen as community work that you do on a voluntary basis. There are lots of reasons why people contribute to Google Maps as a Local Guide. Some have special interests like helping other families with young children to find child-friendly places. Or there are lots of Local Guides that make the world a more accessible place for people with certain disabilities by adding specific information to Google Maps if a place is for example, wheel-chair friendly. Personally, I use Google Maps all the time to make informed decisions. Thanks to Google Maps, I frequently have 4 to 5-star experiences. To do so, I rely on the ratings and reviews by other people and I find it fair that I should add my share of information in return.
One of the most frequently mentioned benefits of contributing to Google Maps is that you are helping people and that gives a good feeling and is beneficial for your health. It is meaningful. Not only do you help people navigate the world, you help the economy of your local community and the businesses you like in particular.
Some people may answer your question by listing the perks we may get. But this is not something we earn! Perks are still given to Local Guides around the world. This has not stopped as you suggested in your question.
Google (sometimes randomly) offers tokens of appreciation for the work we do. These tokens of appreciation and their value are most often in no way justifiable to put in the energy that it takes to be a good Local Guides. This is totally fine because we, Local Guides, are not in it for money or gifts. If you have other expectations, you are wasting your time in my opinion.
Happy mapping and warm regards from Tenerife,
JeroenM
Hello @abidkhaaan and welcome to Local Guides Connect.
Local guides program is a volunteer program, where we all are doing our best efforts by our own wish, to improve maps and betterment for our community & countries. Further Local Guides is a voluntary program and many people participate in it because they want to be able to help others via the Google Maps platform. You can read more - “Why be a Local Guide?”
In Local Guides Program, Sometimes perks are available and it will vary from time to time and from region to region. It depends on who the Google partners are. There may also be special and/or early access to Google features. You can read more about it on the official support page Get Organized.
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Hello @abidkhaaan ,
Keep in mind, Local Guides is a voluntary program and many people participate in it because they want to be able to help others via the Google Maps platform. You can read more - Why be a Local Guide?. Local Guides receive benefits depending on their level which depends on the number of contributions they make to Google Maps.
You can learn more about the program and benefits in the Help Center.
You can check your current perks in your personal Local Guides profile home. If nothing is listed, then there is no current perks for yourself.
And you can have a look at this post where almost all the current/previous perks and their date of expiry is mentioned.
If Google were to send gifts to all the guide account holders, probably because of the pollution caused by the manufacture and sending of millions of gifts, it would pollute the planet more.
Personally I am against sending gifts
To send cotton socks to millions of guides, you have to grow the plant that makes cotton, this plant consumes a lot of water.
To obtain a single kilogram of cotton socks, at least ten tons of water are consumed.
Maybe the socks aren’t 100%
I hope one of you understood the importance of water
Thank you
You can very well consider my answer to be a better one
Hi @abidkhaaan
The main benefit is something that you can’t see at first but it is something priceless:
It gives you the opportunity to grow and to become better in lot of sides in your life.
I wish you to find your way in this program and community. Good luck!
Julien
Thanks a lot. 
Thanks for your answer.
Actually, we can’t do anything or any development in this world without pollution.
We can minimize the pollution but we can’t make it zero.
As you are contributing to Local Guides through internet by using electricity!
Have you ever thought about how much pollution we are causing by using electricity!!? (As production of electricity causes a lot of pollution in nature!!
Thanks for your opinion though. 
Thanks a lot for your valuable reply.