What Local Guides means to me : Exploring new places and editing current locations

Hello friends.

1.A turning point as a Google Map User :

I was never know that as a local guide I can contribute this much to this world. Almost 4 years back I started using google map for searching and reaching new locations. I was only a user of google map that time. But Once upon a time I was going for a marriage program in a village, and I asked google Map to track the destination location. Google map navigated me very efficiently from my home upto the urban area. But as soon as village location started, It was giving wrong location and we got delayed to our location. I was very astonished as it had never happened that Google Map navigated to wrong location. Then I searched the place again on Google Map, and I came to know that the ‘destination’ place was updated twice (with single alphabetical mistake) on Google Map. That day I decided to edit such places on Google Map. I started editing/updating such locations on map with my Email ID (xpertvoice).I was not aware of Google local guide program that time.

These are few pics from my Old ID for which I have not joined Google local Guide program.

I am having another mail ID (idea4urinvestment), which I am currently using, I was contributing from this ID also. Then I joined local guide program from this ID and I was enjoying that my reviews and photos are getting good views. Few of the pics are attached.

Now I am a happy google local guide from this ID.

This is my contribution to google Maps

Few of the pics are attached on which I got most views.

Apart from this . I am engaging with peoples from different locations of India. I am aspiring to explore this social linking to global level.

2. Updating correct Names , Timings and locations of the Places : Apart from adding photographs and giving reviews I have been updating correct Name,locations and timings of different kind of establishments. As India is a big geographical location, so lots of establishments are not updated with correct details (Name,locations and timings).There are few places which are even updated with Photos that do not have any concern with the place. I am reporting those photographs also. One of those photographs is given below.

Jiya Enterprises

Few of the places I have recently updated are as follows.I have Edited timings , phone or Name of these places .

There are few places , which are still not updated on Google Map . I have updated few of the places.few examples are follows.

3. My experiments with Google timeline in Map : This is very very interesting point of my local stories. I will be sharing the detailed story in a separate thread on this platform. It was just and accident for me . I was on a hang out with my friends in New Delhi and we went on multiple locations on that day. On a particular shop (location on google map) I left my valuable items. After few days I was recollected my memories that I might have left my items one of those place.I was very worried how to trace it out . Then I just went to my Google timeline and searched my recent locations and called them one by one .

And I got succeed in hitting the nail, and while sitting at home I traced the items. Shop owner told me that you left these items on my shop and I was waiting for you.

I was very happy after getting my valuable items . From that time I am regularly updating my timeline .

I am ending this story with a :grinning: smiling note . My next story will follow soon.

Thank You

Sandeep Nirvan

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Very detailed story . I went throught the full story. You used timeline in a much better way.

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Hi @Sandeepnirvan

Thank you for sharing your amazing experience with the Community.

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Thank you @ErmesT for guiding me . You are right, I am new to to this platform, but I am here with full zeal and energy to learn new things and hone up my skills. Day by day I am learning few more things on local guide connect platform.

Thank you for sharing these detailed list, help desk and 'How to mark Solutions '.

Sandeep Nirvan

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