Hi Friends,
My name is shiva. I am sharing here my experience with Google maps, hope you like and inspires you.
It all started when I went to Goa (India) Trip in 2016. I am at Morjim beach and taking pictures of sunset at the beach, I got a popup type alert from Google maps(don’t remember exactly) asking me to share that picture to Google maps, immediately I uploaded below picture. Since then I have started sharing pictures, writing reviews and giving ratings to all the places I have visited.
Most of the reviews I write are on restaurants and places I have visited. As I am vegetarian, I will mention about vegetarian food options available in the restaurants and if I am reviewing any new places , I will provide details about nearby vegetarian restaurants. I feel this will help all vegetarians whoever visited those places. I also provide information about ambience of that place, type of crowd visits these restaurants and staff behavior. I also put my suggestions and changes they have to make to improve their business.
Once I was disappointed with perks provided to Local Guides, so, it demotivated me to continue writing reviews and ratings. However, later when a passerby asked me for directions to a place and I provided him with detailed directions, then he thanked me with very happy smile for helping him with the directions, this event motivated me again to restart the reviews on Google maps. This shows that self satisfaction is more important than any perks.
Recently I have visited Samsung Opera house in Bangalore, and wrote my review and gave 5 star rating. I got below reply from the owner. This boosted even more to continue my reviews.
If you like to watch a video on this place, please visit : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qXaEC9J1ek
Thank you for reading my post. Have a great day.
– Shiva