2022
Hi @PhilipMnangat, thank you so much for being a part of LG family. From the picture it can be concluded that you are graduated from a university. So congratulations as well.
OK keep on contributing. Best wishes!
@PhilipM wrote:
- Name: Philip Mnang'at
- Location: Kapenguria, KENYA
- What do I love about being a Local Guide: I love the fact that I can make edits into maps and they help people easily to access what they want to.
- I love to share: I love travelling and discovering new places and I always relay them to people who follow me in social media
- How did I hear about Local Guides: I heard about local guides from my lead moderator north rift local guides, He encouraged me to join and participate in the program. And surely I started enjoying mapping very much.
- Fun Fact About Me: I love making friends and keeping them. I love solving logic puzzles
@JS7,
Being active in this phase of life, you are the great source of inspiration for us. I wish you for healthy & happy long life. Thank you so much for contributing.
@JohnH wrote:I will try this again following the format. Name:John H. Location: Sacramento California USA. What do I love about being a local guide: showing photos I take and reading all the mail from others. What do I love to share: where I have been and what I see. How did I hear about guides: I don't remember it has been awhile and I am getting older than most all of you. Fun facts: I am 70 years old this November and I love doing almost everything I collect stuff I take photos alto. People are fascinating to me and there are so many.
@GusM wrote:As "Introduce Yourself" threads get quite long, we start new ones regularly and lock the old ones. Be sure to check the old threads to see who already joined and where they are from (simply search "Introduce Yourself"). If you're new, please use this thread to post your "I'm new" or "Hello world" posts. We will move any we find into here to keep the site organized.
I will get us started:
- Name: Gus
- Location: New York, USA (originally from Brazil)
- What do I love about being a Local Guide: I love the fact that I can meet people from all over the world and make a lot of friends!
- I love to share: Besides mapping, I love photography so wherever I go I try to take nice pictures to post them on Google Maps.
- How did I hear about Local Guides: After a some time working with Map Maker I saw this amazing group of people who share the same passion as I do. Why not join, eh!?
- Fun Fact About Me: I love to discover local foods everywhere I go and also love to fly (as a passenger and as a pilot)
NAME: OSAMA (Son,Husband,Father & a Pharmacist)
With My Daughter Anood
Location: AMMAN,JORDAN
What I Love About Being A Local Guide :
I Love The Fact That People Naturally love to Share the Advice (For Free) About where to go for Restaurant, Shopping, & tourist or Just spend quite nice time with family. I love Maps & before Google Maps I buy a Map & (search about Yellow Pages in the hotel 🙂 for every country i visit ,but now its much easier
to see all the world from your mobile navigate the city search about Places & see the real feedback from you about your experiences and you see my feedback , About me this save a lot of Time & Money that spend in searching the internet or reading about the city i will visit , With Google Local Guides We Can Help Millions of People and of course we can help each others as A Local Guides Community
how to tie your shoes & how to use Google maps ( Share location , traffic , contributions) will be critical Life skills for this century and this what i try to teach my Three daughters.
I LOVE TO SHARE :
When My Father died i was a teenager my family give me the Shopping Responsibility with a tight budget to buy all the grocery list, so i practice to search about best quality with best price & now after 20 years i have my own family i still do the same, I LOVE SHOPPING compare prices ,wait the 70% sale
the free parking not crowded places , & i love to share how i enjoy my time with my kids which resturant , children museum , Gardens , Playing Areas .....
How I Hear About Local Guides :
its a funny story : i visit Netherland for business i stay in a nice Hotel and go vegetarian for two days in the 3rd day i go with friend to a turkish restaurant and it was a very very tasty we try the majority of the menu , when i come back i upload the pics on google maps, @ that time i don't know about Local guides after couple of days i receive an email from google : (Thanks for adding photos to Google Maps! Your New Photo is a great addition to google maps Millions of people rely on photos like yours when they search for places. Thanks for sharing your photos with the world. You're invited to join Local Guides! )
I accept the invite without any delay and start to make the world better place as much as i can.
Fun Fcats About Me : one of few men on earth who love & enjoy Playing With kids all the day ( there is a child inside me )
Ikea Ice cream
Where to Meet:
See You All Soon in
San francisco , Jordan & Your City
wish you all the best because you make your best you bring something amazing and valuable to life of thousands of Local Guides and make it easy to help each other Thank you .....
