Local Guides Movers & Shakers (December 2023)

[AdamGT]

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Introduction

This post is about the top Local Guides actively contributing and achieving both the most points and views from photos, star photos, star videos and star 360 sphere contributions on Maps. The leaderboards give some indication as to who are the top Local Guides out there pounding the pavements guiding and impacting on their community most.

If you're not listed in the Movers & Shakers leaderboards and believe that you should be then you can make this happen by registering and it's simple to do, just hit this link.  If you want to know more see this excellent How-to post by @AZ_2021.

 

[AdamGT]

Reading the Movers & Shakers leaderboards (December 2023)

Briefly, this is what you need to know about the leaderboards in this post. For more details about the Top 100 leaderboards see the leaderboard documentation:

1. Simply stated, the term Movers & Shakers in this post is used to describe the Local Guides that have achieved the most in terms of overall Local Guide points, photo views and star views over the past month. Therefore, the leaderboards in this post indicate how active each participating Local Guide has been over the past month as well as the performance of their photos, videos and 360 spheres, and their respective stars in terms of views over the same period.
   
   To explain the different metrics used in the Movers & Shakers leaderboards we will use the following simple example. Sarah, a Level 8 Local Guide, uses the T100 System and updates her data on the 28th of each month. For simplicity of explanation, she updates her data every 30 days! The following table summarizes her key data as at 28 April and 28 May::
   
   

   Data	28 April	28 May	Delta	% Delta
   Points	20,000	24,000	4,000	20%
   Photos	860	900	40	0.5%
   Photo Views	15m	16.8m	1.8m	12%
   Star Photo Views	4.03m	4.06m	0.03m	0.7%

   
   (a) The Delta Points is the value of the points earned by a Local Guide over the past month. In this way, Sarah's current Delta Points is 4,000  [ 24,000 - 20,000 ]^*.
   
   (b) The % Delta Points is the value of the points earned by a Local Guide over the past month expressed as a percentage. Therefore, Sarah's current % Delta Points is 20% [ (4,000/20,000)*100 ].
   
   (c) The Delta Views is the absolute value of the total photo views gained by a Local Guide over the past month. Thus, Sarah's Delta Views for that month is 1.8m [ 16.8m - 15m ]^*.
   
   (d) The % Delta Views is the value of the total views gained by a Local Guide over the past month expressed as a percentage. Therefore, Sarah's current % Delta Views is 12% [ (1.8m/15m)*100 ].
   
   (e) The Delta Views/Photo is the average photo views gained per photo by a Local Guide in the past month and for comparative purposes, this gives a simple measure of the overall quality of a Local Guide's photos in terms of views gained per photo; the higher the Delta Views/Photo the higher the quality of the photos! Therefore, Sarah has a current Delta Views/Photo of 180 2,000 [ 1.8m/900 ].
   
   (f) The Delta Views/Day is the average photo views gained per day by a Local Guide in the past month and for comparative purposes, this is another metric that gives a simple measure of the overall quality of a Local Guide's photos in terms of views gained per day; the higher the Delta Views/Day the higher the quality of the photos! Therefore, Sarah has a current Delta Views/Day of 60,000 [ 1.8m/30 ].
   
   (g) The Delta Star Views is similar to the Delta Views however in this case, it represents the views gained over the past month by a Local Guide's most viewed photo, or star photo. Therefore, Sarah's Delta Star Views is 30,000 [ 4.06m - 4.03m ]^*
   
   (h) The Delta Star Views/Day is simply the average Delta Star Views per day over the past month. Therefore, Sarah's star photo has a Delta Star Views/Day of 1,000 [ 30,000 / 30 ]. This metric gives a simple up-to-date measure of the quality of our star photo in terms of views gained per day^*.
   
   
2. If you are a participant in the Points, Photo Views, Star Photos and Country leaderboards and haven't updated your data in the previous month and in time for the leaderboards posted here then you will obviously not be included in the Movers & Shakers leaderboards.
   
   
3. If you are a new participant on the Top 100 Leaderboards then you will not be included in the Movers and Shakers this month simply because you do not have a prior month's history.
   
   
4. If you updated in your contributions data in the previous month but not in the month prior to that then you will also not be included in this month's Movers & Shakers because your Delta Points would be across more than one month and this would unfairly distort the idea behind the Movers & Shakers which looks at the points and photo views movement (i.e. the delta points) in the one month.
   
   
5. In summary, the Movers & Shakers leaderboards only include those Local Guides who regularly update and have especially done so over the last couple of months. It's all about creating that level playing field and comparing apples with apples.
   
   
6. Where shown, [ ] around leaderboard sequence numbers indicate that this is the Local Guide is a new participated on the Top 100 Local Guides leaderboards.
   
   
7. An asterisk (*) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Connect Moderator.
   
   
8. Double asterisks (**) shown after a Connect Username indicates that that Local Guide is a Googler.
   
   
9. Selecting any of the Connect Usernames will take you to that Local Guide's Connect Profile.
   
   
10. Local Guides included in the leaderboards must check their entries for any errors. If you should find any errors or omissions, please add the details in a comment on this post.
    
    * Please note that making comparisons using metrics such as delta points and delta views must be done carefully. In my view it is better to use points per day or views per day for comparative purposes and you will find these in the Core Vitals section of the T100 Leaderboards System!

[AdamGT]

Points Movers & Shakers Leaderboard (December 2023)    May   June   July   August   September   October   November
No	Local Guide	LG Level	Delta Points
1	@Lukas_	10	36,237
2	@Herve_Andrieu	10	27,601
3	@JustJake	9	17,915
4	@PrasadVR	9	14,889
5	@Kumaarsantosh	9	9,221
6	@jayasimha78	10	7,615
7	@ig_shevchenko	10	6,833
8	@Bartek_Maryniak	10	5,996
9	@egauer	10	5,855
10	@Kurt2day	10	5,622
11	@MilesMac	10	5,497
12	@JohnDDoe	9	5,242
13	@DilipC	10	4,748
(14)	@ajitthite	9	4,560
15	@turaibalazs	9	4,130
16	@ManhattanNYC	8	4,117
17	@S_Patel	8	3,658
18	@MarkAuchincloss	10	3,613
19	@Hana_K	10	3,264
20	@ModNomad	10	2,972
21	@Kayimi	9	2,893
22	@Ustrell	10	2,852
23	@ZeZe	10	2,769
24	@Caverni	10	2,744
25	@abermans	10	2,289
26	@regandas	8	2,131
27	@AdriansyahPutera	10	2,066
28	@Rednewt74	8	2,026
29	@Annaelisa	9	1,999
30	@Trail_blazer	9	1,974
31	@FlavioDA	10	1,970
32	@MattGatlin	10	1,942
33	@TiffanyStockstill	8	1,888
34	@Ankit_Raj	8	1,873
35	@AlbrechtH	9	1,815
36	@A-Kwon-Fang	10	1,800
37	@shunsader	9	1,748
38	@JayDae-SuVega	9	1,675
39	@LaloPadilla *	10	1,673
40	@Nitinkapoor	9	1,633
41	@Tovi	8	1,496
42	@TerryPG	9	1,288
43	@turbotapeworm	10	1,277
44	@LudwigGermany *	9	1,257
45	@NahidHossain	8	1,239
46	@szliuyun2011	8	1,184
47	@ogewuru	10	1,140
48	@JitendraKumarprasa	8	1,062
49	@DanielTh	10	1,030
(50)	@EvaBar	8	926
51	@DshottDennis	10	895
52	@LightRich *	8	894
53	@RooksieN	9	889
54	@efcxp	8	881
55	@Getzafar	8	814
56	@Josevieitez	9	769
57	@nigelfreeney	8	620
58	@ZUKInp	8	567
59	@tony_b	8	526
60	@MBommeli	9	525
61	@Mikeinthefalls	7	355
62	@Anonymous	8	352
63	@SAKHI-G1	9	299
64	@Bartmans	8	244
65	@Mo-TravelleerX	9	217
66	@Firedad	7	215
67	@HuseyinBesguller	7	167
68	@chiefzero	8	154
69	@katydarhel	7	125
70	@Mohdmohdaljaman	8	66
71	@AnubhaBangia	6	62
72	@JakubWarsaw	8	33
73	@You ?	?	?

[Data read at 5:45 on 4 December 2023 (AEDT)]

[AdamGT]

Photo Views Movers & Shakers Leaderboard (December 2023)    May   June   July   August   September   October   November
No	Local Guide	LG Level	Delta Views	% Delta Views	Delta Views/Photo
1	@Herve_Andrieu	10	256,423,083	1.9	1,234
2	@abermans	10	92,434,984	5.9	2,581
3	@shunsader	9	86,033,192	28.5	9,047
4	@jayasimha78	10	45,494,932	2.3	900
5	@Kurt2day	10	35,021,236	6.1	1,821
6	@TerryPG	9	33,668,255	2.5	4,379
7	@MortenCopenhagen *	10	32,512,123	2.6	1,711
8	@Mikeinthefalls	7	27,238,371	2.8	44,146
9	@JakubWarsaw	8	27,159,366	9.0	5,111
10	@MattGatlin	10	25,136,347	1.7	1,062
11	@DshottDennis	10	24,616,182	2.2	671
12	@AlbrechtH	9	24,443,581	6.2	2,785
13	@AdamGT *	10	16,036,122	3.3	1,124
14	@chiefzero	8	16,026,897	6.2	3,944
15	@Josevieitez	9	12,193,218	3.5	1,386
16	@ig_shevchenko	10	11,957,620	3.9	456
17	@turaibalazs	9	11,220,988	13.9	844
18	@LaloPadilla *	10	11,045,305	2.3	782
19	@JohnDDoe	9	10,135,670	10.8	749
20	@ZeZe	10	10,129,726	1.5	202
21	@JayDae-SuVega	9	8,487,995	4.1	616
22	@Hana_K	10	7,232,561	4.4	252
23	@Firedad	7	7,049,136	7.4	6,904
24	@mbmuhlison	9	6,583,915	3.6	428
25	@turbotapeworm	10	6,533,338	1.9	556
26	@tunaontour	8	5,205,378	16.2	1,668
27	@egauer	10	4,765,182	14.0	366
28	@Kayimi	9	4,624,803	4.9	640
29	@MilesMac	10	4,623,468	3.5	190
30	@Ustrell	10	4,341,902	3.2	262
31	@DanielTh	10	3,792,221	1.1	268
32	@MarkAuchincloss	10	3,523,627	1.9	73
33	@nigelfreeney	8	3,378,873	2.4	527
34	@Trail_blazer	9	3,364,030	3.0	268
35	@Getzafar	8	3,330,302	14.8	630
36	@RooksieN	9	2,902,300	3.2	561
37	@szliuyun2011	8	2,797,935	15.5	894
38	@ManhattanNYC	8	2,551,760	7.3	918
39	@TiffanyStockstill	8	2,450,118	8.4	2,404
40	@LudwigGermany *	9	2,144,166	2.8	1,100
41	@Rednewt74	8	1,952,537	4.6	1,136
42	@Kumaarsantosh	9	1,776,186	6.6	249
43	@JustJake	9	1,772,934	3.0	1,429
44	@katydarhel	7	1,624,834	2.9	1,574
45	@Mo-TravelleerX	9	1,500,172	5.7	144
46	@Caverni	10	1,489,244	1.4	163
47	@MBommeli	9	1,474,555	1.1	147
48	@LightRich *	8	1,399,996	2.5	492
49	@Tovi	8	1,138,942	12.2	352
50	@S_Patel	8	1,087,446	2.0	430
51	@A-Kwon-Fang	10	1,033,157	0.2	23
52	@ZUKInp	8	962,963	5.6	273
53	@Annaelisa	9	957,082	2.5	266
54	@FlavioDA	10	928,515	3.0	307
55	@Ankit_Raj	8	847,101	13.7	321
56	@DilipC	10	792,907	6.7	480
57	@efcxp	8	790,286	7.8	610
58	@AT_Rome	9	771,406	0.9	92
59	@tony_b	8	766,197	5.5	1,337
60	@Bartmans	8	645,568	3.8	346
61	@Mohdmohdaljaman	8	608,416	5.7	203
62	@ModNomad	10	606,267	1.7	262
(63)	@ajitthite	9	544,665	4.9	209
64	@Nitinkapoor	9	500,959	13.8	56
65	@IzzyOz	6	376,610	32.1	2,942
66	@PrasadVR	9	362,016	1.6	171
67	@NahidHossain	8	337,411	1.5	64
68	@Lukas_	10	276,948	3.3	180
69	@AdriansyahPutera	10	274,017	1.4	109
(70)	@EvaBar	8	199,841	5.1	714
71	@HuseyinBesguller	7	192,622	3.6	732
72	@AnubhaBangia	6	126,044	4.3	592
73	@SAKHI-G1	9	76,807	6.8	10
74	@regandas	8	56,678	4.2	40
75	@You ?	?	?	?	?

[Data read at 5:45 on 4 December 2023 (AEDT)]

[AdamGT]

Star Photos Movers & Shakers Leaderboard (December 2023)    May   June   July   August   September   October   November
No	Local Guide	LG Level	Delta Star Views	Date Uploaded	Maps Category	Description
1	@turaibalazs	9	8,094,669	2020-01-28	Mosque	Historical Landmark
2	@chiefzero	8	7,773,061	2022-10-02	technology Museum	Tourist attraction
3	@ig_shevchenko	10	4,612,665	2021-08-15	Monastery	Historical Landmark
4	@JakubWarsaw	8	4,154,237	2021-11-27	Beach	Beach
5	@tunaontour	8	3,774,502	2022-08-10	Natural Reserve	Tourist attraction
6	@JohnDDoe	9	3,754,907	2021-12-28	Building	Panorama shot
7	@szliuyun2011	8	1,572,737	2023-08-31	Tourist attraction	Cityscape
8	@Mo-TravelleerX	9	427,549	2023-01-15	Mosque	Historical Landmark
9	@Bartmans	8	394,717	2021-03-19	Historical Landmark	Historical Landmark
10	@abermans	10	327,080	2022-05-01	Health Service	Building
11	@LightRich *	8	295,127	2022-12-19	Taco Shop	Seating area Internal
12	@mbmuhlison	9	271,990	2022-09-24	University	Building
13	@TerryPG	9	166,401	2018-10-15	Department store	Storefront
14	@IzzyOz	6	153,415	2023-07-23	Chinese restaurant	Storefront
15	@TiffanyStockstill	8	151,215	2020-05-05	Bar Listing	Plaza/Piazza/Square
16	@AT_Rome	9	126,677	2016-03-01	High school	Building
17	@Trail_blazer	9	94,517	2022-09-08	Hospital	Garden
18	@Kumaarsantosh	9	56,667	2023-03-20	Buddhist temple	Tourist attraction
(19)	@ajitthite	9	48,665	2023-05-09	Clothing Store	Storefront
20	@JustJake	9	47,029	2021-07-17	Amusement Park	Park/Playground
21	@Caverni	10	41,630	2017-02-01	alimentari	Storefront
22	@ManhattanNYC	8	41,209	2021-09-23	Sportswear store	Storefront
23	@RooksieN	9	1,416	2021-12-31	Breakfast	Building
24	@efcxp	8	765	2020-08-26	Hospital	Internal photo
25	@PrasadVR	9	325	2017-11-15	Electronics store	Storefront
26	@tony_b	8	231	2019-02-19	Hardware store	Storefront
27	@MarkAuchincloss	10	174	2019-08-15	Irish Pub	Building
28	@Annaelisa	9	89	2019-07-19	Restaurant	Cityscape
29	@MortenCopenhagen *	10	88	2020-10-15	Fine dining restaurant	Storefront
30	@Rednewt74	8	70	2018-02-15	Mexican Restaurant	Storefront
31	@nigelfreeney	8	65	2019-09-07	Indian Restaurant	Storefront
(32)	@EvaBar	8	57	2020-10-25	Car racing track	Seating area External
33	@FlavioDA	10	10	2017-03-15	Restaurant	Internal photo
34	You ?	?	?	?	?	?

[Data read at 5:45 on 4 December 2023 (AEDT)]

[AdamGT]

Star Videos Movers & Shakers Leaderboard (December 2023)    May   June   July   August   September   October   November
No	Local Guide	LG Level	Delta Star Views	Date Uploaded	Maps Category	Description
1	@tunaontour	8	340,107	2022-08-11	City	Cityscape
2	@Mikeinthefalls	7	261,333	2023-09-20	Breakfast restaurant	Storefront
3	@abermans	10	128,041	2022-01-01	Market	Tourist attraction
4	@RooksieN	9	112,603	2023-03-01	Japanese	Meal or beverage
5	@Rednewt74	8	112,506	2023-05-20	Cafe	Other
6	@MattGatlin	10	92,189	2022-11-18	Fast Food Restaurant	Storefront
7	@ig_shevchenko	10	89,211	2021-05-20	Condominium complex	Building
8	@ManhattanNYC	8	53,188	2023-02-12	Subway station	Other
9	@Mo-TravelleerX	9	38,445	2021-04-08	Water	Tourist attraction
10	@LightRich *	8	37,274	2022-01-20	Restaurant	Seating area External
11	@MarkAuchincloss	10	25,520	2023-05-20	Bistro	Menu
12	@IzzyOz	6	22,022	2023-07-08	Town Hall	Other
13	@nigelfreeney	8	7,727	2022-08-01	Clothing Shop	Storefront
14	@efcxp	8	7,529	2022-10-01	Beach	Beach
15	@JohnDDoe	9	6,896	2023-06-05	A cityscape	Tourist attraction
16	@tony_b	8	4,392	2023-06-10	Fast Food Restaurant	Building
17	@Annaelisa	9	3,567	2021-08-10	Ort	Other
18	@TerryPG	9	2,872	2019-09-18	Tex Mex	Meal or beverage
19	@JustJake	9	1,728	2022-10-25	Sports complex	Panorama shot
(20)	@ajitthite	9	390	2023-10-08	Restaurant	Meal or beverage
21	@PrasadVR	9	59	2023-07-15	Airport	Garden
(22)	@EvaBar	8	39	2020-11-13	Car racing track	Tourist attraction
23	@Kumaarsantosh	9	12	2020-09-25	Tourist attraction	Waterfall
24	@You ?	?	?	?	?	?

[Data read at 5:45 on 4 November 2023 (AEDT)]

[AdamGT]

Star 360s Movers & Shakers Leaderboard (December 2023)    October   November
No	Local Guide	LG Level	Delta Star Views	Date Uploaded	Maps Category	Description
1	@JohnDDoe	9	29,805	2022-05-28	A cityscape	Cityscape
2	@AT_Rome	9	14,050	2017-05-07	Giardino	Garden
3	@LightRich *	8	4,437	2017-03-16	Sports Complex	Other
4	@Anonymous	8	2,404	2023-01-20	Túnel	Historical Landmark
5	@efcxp	8	2,145	2023-09-30	Beach	Beach
6	@Kumaarsantosh	9	2,056	2023-06-15	Electronics Store	Storefront
7	@nigelfreeney	8	1,184	2019-11-01	Gym	Internal photo
8	@RooksieN	9	408	2023-10-09	Performing arts theater	Internal photo
9	@MattGatlin	10	156	2017-01-16	Restaurant	Storefront
10	@You ?	?	?	?	?

[Data read at 5:45 on 4 November 2023 (AEDT)]

[AdamGT]

A quick round up: 

@Lukas_ is certainly still at the top of the points Movers & Shakers and interestingly @Herve_Andrieu has jumped on this board and wow @JustJake makes a BIG jump from previously at #29 with 2,254 points to 17,915 points. A closer look at the other boards should reveal which contribution areas lead to these impressive jumps.

And look at Herve's 256m+ jump in photo views and with a massive 44,146 delta views/photo, @Mikeinthefalls continues to show us what "quality" photos can achieve. I am surprised that @MelTG isn't shown on this board. Does this indicate that I have made some mistake?

I see that @abermans has made a very nice climb up the Star Videos Movers & Shakers board from 55,582 to 128,041 star video views and so has @LightRich for that matter up from 4,648 to 32,274 star views.  And newbie Level 6 Local Guide @IzzyOz continues to impress. It's interesting how some videos seem to have dropped down this chart.

@AT_Rome makes a very impressive jump up the Star 360s Movers & Shakers board.

You've just got to love the Movers & Shakers

[JustJake]

Thanks for the call-out, @AdamGT - indeed, @Lukas_ had a massive jump, as did I - the biggest single month in my 8 years as an LG. But if you check @SholaIB's recent post, you may recognize several of the top points movers. Aside from Herve, 5 of the top 6 participated in the 21-day Stay On TRAC road-adding project.

Congrats to @PrasadVR, @Kumaarsantosh, @jayasimha78, @Ankit_Raj, @TerryPG, @LightRich, @EvaBar (and all the others I can't tag due to post limits) for Moving and Shaking - in part - because of your road contributions. 15 points per approval is no joke! 

[PrasadVR]

Dear @AdamGT  Thank you for the update.

😀I am  behind JustJake on Points Movers & Shakers Leaderboard (December 2023).

Thank you  @JustJake