β02-17-2019 08:14 AM - edited β02-20-2019 03:12 AM
Year 2019 kicked off with so many interesting posts here on localguidesconnect (LGC). We saw the year 2018 in review from @Albry , @AriMar's post about the hashtags on Google Maps and many more.
We Also saw excellent photography tips (here & here) from @Christina-NYC , @ErmesT's post on capturing sunset and @PennyChristie's great post about the same theme on capturing sunrise and sunsets , to name a few.
We had a lot of great posts on Idea Exchange as well, but I had an Idea to present a theme that can help to curate & consolidate the content (if established). The Idea was pretty simple and revolved around two major factors:
We have Google Lists on maps? don't we?
well, we do, and they work great. But, you have to add a map listing/review and build up a list. whereas, this idea was to build up a list coming from local guides around the world (even if it wasn't reviewed or posted by them on Google Maps, pretty simple, eh?), to:
So, any plausible action?
Well, yes, we had Call for Grand Selfie Mosaic challenge (Started: 21st January 2019 | Ended: 10th Feb, 2019) where local guides were asked to share:
I was amazed with the response from LGC community. We had so many contributions from local guides, connect moderators and Google moderators as well (Honestly, I never had any interaction with most of them and it was the first time I got to know their names and how they look like π ).
So, I decided to go an extra-mile and sum up the results in a very different way this time, including:
All of this can be found on the Google Drive here (no copyrights or privacy breach intended. As all the information was publicly shared, the media was personally created, I believe that I am not violating any terms and policies here )
So, Thanking all beautiful 80 contributors by presenting:
The Photo Wall
The Photo Mosaic
That gorgeous little Photo Album Slideshow
That, looong Google Earth Tour
Thanking everyone for their contributions, I hope to see other other Grand Selfie Challenges.
Cheers
P.S. Please check out the Insta stories on the drive (you can download them on your device and make them yours) and also feel free to tag your fellow local guides in this post (specially the ones, who took part in this competition)
The post now has updated Photo Wall, Photo Mosaic and Album Slideshow video.I had to add this photo to tell you guys that I missed your submission by accident, but, I love you guys π
β02-17-2019 08:47 AM
Marvelous work @OmerAli ,
I really appreciate and love your dedication. And I can understand how much time you spend and hardwork you did for this project.
Hats off for you Bhai ππ
Thank you so much Omerali.
Gems Of the World - A Connect Travel Post Challenge
β02-17-2019 08:50 AM
Thank you so much @KashifMisidia bhai for taking part in this concept and being supportive in everything that I do.
I really appreciate that and I hope that you liked the end product π
β02-17-2019 08:54 AM
This is SUPERB! thanks a bunch, @OmerAli for all the hard work and coming up with amazing videos, loved the idea of Google Earth tagging ^_^
β02-17-2019 08:57 AM
@AIMAN_SAEED thanks a lot.
I really appreciate your kind words and am so happy that you liked the idea (I was kinda keeping it a secret , and, together with multiple computer crashes, I really hoped that people find it interesting)
β02-17-2019 09:31 AM
@OmerAli Awesome results! I really liked the Google Earth tour. The 2018 recap was very nice too. Thank you for doing all of this!
Please mention me with @Jesi on your reply, so I get notified
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β02-17-2019 09:35 AM - edited β02-17-2019 12:07 PM
Thank you @OmerAli
for your wonderful work!!!
It's incredibly!
I'm so happy to see LGs friends!
Hey @lucianavelasques , @alexandradias , @Haruki , @BeatrizAguilar ! We should see this!
β02-17-2019 09:46 AM
@OmerAli Thank you so much to do this!!! I loved!