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Badruddeen · ‎07-08-2018

Welcome to Local Guides Connect and I am very happy to meet you.

As this seems to be one of your first post in here, may I take this opportunity to give you some information about Local Guides Community Forum Connect:

A must read The 5 core values of Connect

Getting started with Local Guides

The Help Desk Check this section as lot of questions are answered here.

Explore the Forum menu, General Discussions, Travel & Advice, Let's Meet-Up, Share Your Photos and Discoveries, Photography
Introduce yourself to the community, tell us about you.

As an extra tips, i would suggest you to Search the community before posting as the same subject can be already being discussed.

Happy guiding - Badruddeen

SamseerKmohd · ‎07-08-2018

Hi Guyz... I am Level 7... Lets fun...

La_Yaung · ‎07-08-2018

Hello everyone,

I'm Freddie. I know its different to my username but all of my close friends call me Freddie. This is my first post here in Google Local Guides Connect and I just arrived level 6.

I was born in Myanmar and now living in Sydney, AU. I love travelling and metting new people. I am also into photography and I have just recently bought entry level Nikon D3400. Taking photos of amazing nature and places I've been to is my passion and hobby. Hope to see your all travel photos and share photography techniques! Check out one of my photos I have taken recently and share your thoughts. 🙂 Bondi Beach, NSW, AU

PaulPavlinovich · ‎07-08-2018

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

I will move this to the intro post.

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

Note I do not usually read private messages.
Point Click Guide on YouTube - Photo Tutorials for Local Guides
Shapes and Places - Mapping Stuff

Check out the World Wide Water Quality Map
Read about how many photos to contribute to a place on Maps
Always @Mention me so I see your reply Follow me on Maps | Like trains?

PaulPavlinovich · ‎07-08-2018

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

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