What Local Guide Means to me: Navigating New City In Rainy Dark Night my story as a local guide and

On a Dark Rainy night the Fall of 2017 I was driving down In Istanbul city of Turkey, as the city is mega-city, I was driving on a road that was very strange to me, I could not believe that was was the right road that will lead me to where I wanted, it was very dark and rainy night the google map women voice was on, telling me to go ahead that I will reach my destination in 30 minutes, Normally that Destination takes 50 minutes to reach,

I reached my destination before time. I was sitting in a restaurant near the Pasphros Beach, the fresh air from the sea was hitting me so nicely I asked my self how do you move in this city without google maps, no way it’s not possible, the question that came it my mind was how can I be part of this. I tried to search and I found google local guide, I started sharing on the maps and I loved how I made an impact on so many people’s travel.

One other day was with My friend was driving as around 9:30 pm in Minneapolis Minnesota we were looking nearby place to eat food I suggested to go Karmel Mall in Minneapolis one friend said that it will be closed at 10 pm I said let’s try we came to know that the mall closes at 10:30, I edited (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Karmel+Mall/@44.9498194,-93.28554,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m11!1m5!8m4!1e4!2s100688077945034191005!3m1!1e1!3m4!1s0x87f6278bb9b41e8f:0x9826c506ca2f857e!8m2!3d44.9498156!4d-93.2833513)the business hours it was approved and it helped so many people that made me happy and I still remember that Dark rainy night in Istanbul and how google maps helped me, more than 300,000 people viewed the photos that are https://goo.gl/maps/ntSAgBbBUH45LmPaA rewarding to me.

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