Discover California

[PhenixRhyder]

Whats your past time? Mine is traveling the highways of California for hours at night as a kid. Stopping at KOA to camp, star watch and fish. 

[Rezgar]

Hi @PhenixRhyder 
Warm welcome to Local Guides Connect Community.
If possible for you please share tourist attraction of your City and your Country.
I share some information and photos about Tourist Attractions in My country.
I wait to see your amazing posts.


Best Regards
Rezgar

[PaulPavlinovich]

Welcome to Local Guides @PhenixRhyder there are lots of ways to contribute that will help your community.

I've lived in California (Bay Area) for a few years and have visited most of the state. About the only area I've not been to is San Diego. It is a really interesting state with the contrast from the mountains to the central valley out to the temperate Bay Area and the massively busy Los Angeles and everything in between. I'll be back this October for another visit.

Contributing on Maps
 
The best ways to contribute and get points are

• Add new places
• Add meaningful quality photos to places
• Edit places to update them to correct information.
• Review and rate places you’ve experienced and tell us about them
• Add photos to places you visit, most places deserve two to three photos, one of the outside of the place, one of the inside and perhaps a product shot. Some places may deserve more such as large stores, tourist attractions or cultural landmarks.

While contributing is a lot of fun and rewarding, I always caution people about growing in points too quickly. Organic growth a little at a time is always best. Those  who shoot up like rockets sometimes are making low quality contributions and may have contributions removed with a subsequent loss of points.
 
For everything you contribute, always think to yourself, would I find what I'm about to add useful? If the answer is yes then go ahead and do it, otherwise think about holding back.
 
Never review places you have not personally visited or used.
Good luck in your journey as a Local Guide.
 
Contributing on Connect
 
Whether you want to share or offer Travel Advice, share photos and stories of your favourite discoveries, talk about photography or talk about Maps and mapping or maybe you like to organise Meetups like photo walks or geowalks or foodcrawls there is a board here for you. Remember that Connect isn't a general social network, socialising as a Local Guide is important but please try and stay on topic. There are loads of great tips in this forum Helpdesk for how to get the most out of Connect. Remember to always uphold the Core Values of Connect.

If you haven't already consider introducing yourself on this post
 
Regards Paul