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Sometimes when you reach a restaurant, a notification pops up on your smartphone and a question is asked - how was your experience at a particular restaurant ? Or , it may also be asked if there is a lift here ? Whatever we answer, it goes up in Google's book and other people can see your review or your answer when they are searching for or near the same restaurant.

In this , Google follows Google to prove that it is following in our footsteps , but it is nothing new. It may be of interest to us that on the internet now maps service is also starting to compete with social sites! We may be more interested in how people can help others in small ways! For example , if you answered whether the restaurant is on the second floor and whether there is an elevator, you can help someone else who takes to the Internet with the same question.

Google Maps does a lot more than just guide you from one place to another. Here you can become a guide to others yourself - by becoming a local guide!

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Google and Facebook are fierce rivals on the Internet. Both of them get unlimited data from the user , but they go one step further and get new data from the user as well . All this is a smart company of the new age, so it gets data from users , presents it in a useful way to other users , as a result, its users keep increasing. On the other hand , along with it, the advertising circle also spins at a faster pace!

The ' Local Guide ' feature in Google Maps is an example of such a smart approach , which benefits both the company and the user. If you have been using the Maps app a lot, you must have noticed the change. This app is no longer just for navigation , the Maps service has now become a social service!

What is Local Guide Service ?

Good people are confused that how Google knows everything about the whole world ? In fact, we and others like us provide information to Google. Google (and other companies like it) have created a kind of overwhelming democracy on the Internet , for the people , by the people and through the people (which benefits both us and Google!).

That's why there is now unlimited information in the maps, because people themselves are adding information to it due to a service called ' Local Guide ' .

You might have experienced that while you are looking at the notifications of your smartphone while you are visiting a place , you may have come across a question about that place. Like if you went to a restaurant and someone asked if there is enough parking facility.

You can either ignore this question , answer it, or join Google's Local Guides program and answer the question later. The information you provide becomes your contribution to Maps . Google has adopted the mission of organizing the world's information and making it easily accessible to all and with the advent of the Maps app, this mission has indeed added new dimensions.

For example...

Suppose you are a fan of a makaiwala near Lo-Garden in Ahmedabad and visit there frequently. Sometimes you may want to take an elder of the family too , who is not interested in food but in visiting the nearby Samarteshwar Mahadev temple.

The problem is that the elder cannot compete without a wheelchair. We will find many people who inform us that corn with cheese-butter-garlic chutney is good there , but there are very few people who inform us whether there is a wheelchair-accessible ramp at the temple of Mahadev . If we take an elder and then find that there is no ramp , the elder and all of us will be disappointed.

On arrival , if you are someone who takes out the Google Maps app , take your phone out of your pocket while sitting, open the Maps app and search for Samarteshwar Mahadev , then it is possible that someone has added the information you need there (that person may have visited that temple). This question may have been asked in google maps and they may have answered it. If you don't get the answer you can also put this question in maps).

Ramps for wheelchairs , clean washrooms , lift facility to a banquet hall on the second floor ... there can be many things that we need to know before reaching the place.

Such information is not added to the maps by the Google company , but by its users , which is known as ' Local Guide ' . People who keep on liking on Google. If you also fall into this category and love to help others at a selfless rate, and also like to get something like a ' petal if not a flower ' for helping , then you should become a ' Local Guide ' on Google Maps .

Who can be a local guide ?

The word tourism has a strong connection with maps and an equally strong connection with the word tourism. So when it comes to ' local guide ' on maps , we would think that it would be about the guides who memorized the history of tourist places like Red Fort or Taj Mahal , but in fact it is not so.

Any housewife , student , doctor , lawyer can become a guide in Google Maps!

Any benefits of being a local guide ?

Yes , after you join the Local Guide program, keep contributing to Maps in various ways , you will get points for each of your contributions (reviews , photos , videos , fact checks , edits, etc.).

Google also gives you badges with small and big stars!

Depending on your points , you may be able to take advantage of some special Google features earlier than others. 15 GB space is free in Google services , but we have to buy more space - if you have earned special points as a local guide , you may get such space for free for some time!

There are also countless people who add fake and false information on Google Maps , but if we also contribute a little than just Google to fight against it, then experience the satisfaction of helping others!

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When you open the Maps app, you will see a ' Contribute ' button at the bottom. By clicking on it , it will show if you have contributed before and explain how to join the rest of the program.

As of now one can join this program by just posting two photos , writing two reviews and answering two questions.

We can add a variety of information , opinions , photos , videos to the map as a local guide (or even without it) . We can answer other people's questions , add things that are not mentioned in the maps , if we have given the address of a shop or business on the map but now it is closed permanently, we can add this information to the map. There are two benefits of doing this , one is that other people can get correct information and secondly , as a local guide, you can get some benefits from Google.