What is the most interesting thing you've done as a Local Guide?

The most interesting thing I’ve done and keep doing is helping locals. I help local businesses in my area especially if they got the location pin wrong, I move it to be exactly where the business is to help out others navigating to the location. Also, I help when there are new construction in my area and surrounding, I create roads in that area as I see them physically.

I’m also a photographer, when I go for walks I take my phone with me and I start taking photos of parks and locations that doesn’t have any picture or have at least one. I enjoy doing that alot! and what keeps me doing it over and over is the feedback that I get from Google Maps reports and see how many people actually saw my pictures and helped them to eat at restaurants.

One day as a group we went to eat at a restaurant, I came first and everyone was late! Then when my friends came they explained that Google Maps put them the other side of the building and they kept looking for the location for a while. I logged into my account, I saw the problem and fixed it. It was the location pin misplaced. Then I told the owner about this, he thanked me and gave me a free meal because I fixed the location! Was a good day!

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