Google Local Guide Program: Boy am I late ** Topic should get updated **

You cannot imagine how late I'm into the game of Google Local Guides.

Most often I reviewed places in different programs and apps but I never really touched Google for much.

The quality of Apple and Google Maps is in my opinion terrible and has not dramatically improved.

But the Google Local Guide Program is fun.

- Add pictures
- Add reviews
- Answer questions

- Missing:

• Most important rate reviews and Photos and if people like your reviews/photos allow them to show these comments first when searching.
• But do not allow to track a person!
• From iPhotos or Google Photos, directly attach a photo to a place. 
• It takes so much time to go into maps and then select a photo from gallery.
• Read the location of the photo show a map and suggest placement.
• Picture editing features
• Remove peoples faces
• Remove people if multiple photos taken from the same scene
• Remove window reflections
• Picture information
• Show pictures of the current time and season
• Show pictures from other sources if public available
• Show information crowdsourced in categories
• Show reviews based on visitors or locals
• Show reviews with a few categorizations
• Map videos to locations
• Enable OCR from pictures or text recognition for opening hours, really terrible to enter manually, takes way too long.

As always with the internet, the information might be there, too hard to find and use, 93% is redundant and of minor quality. Focus should be to reach a better data level quality.

• As a bonus to some of the local guides, provide early access to camera rigs to capture the world around them.
• I hate having to point my camera at everything:
• need a bike mount /helmet mount
• automatic synchronization of known locations with pictures
• need a drone that follows me, slightly above shoulder height, and let me remotely trigger pictures.

Keeps you occupied for some time and then they probably let it die, like so many other good ideas?

Apple iCloud Photo Library Rants: Really bad if you have 80'000 photos and a 16GB iPad mini

Summary:

• iCloud Photo Library fills your 16GB iPad mini and renders it almost unusable.
• During the first few hours your iPad might be sweating a lot and it feels like an original iPad 2

Workaround:

• use Safari https://icloud.com (but request desktop site mandatory)

Plea to Apple:

• Fix the Photos app not to fill out all the storage on the device, while allowing me to access everything but implement clever caching. Google Photos is quite clever and does not use more than 660 MB in my case.

Story:

I love i Cloud Photo Library and yes I would prefer to pay less for the 1TB Storage I subscribed to just recently.

The product is quite useful, except if you own a 16GB iPad mini and have a huge number of photos, videos etc. In my case 80'000.

After enabling it the iPad will, even with the optimized storage setting, fill all available space -15 MB.

Any kind of application that you try to install will not work (most of the applications are bigger than the 15 MB available).

Now you think you are clever and search frantically some applications to delete or delete data (which is cumbersome since some  iOS release removed the convenient delete data under the storage settings page), but heck the free space is immediately filled with more photos/videos. 15 MB is all I got and I get many times the low free space error message.

I gave up, I won't even try to find a solution. I removed iCloud Photo Library setting and use Google Photos, that I also use to back up all my photos. That one does not fill my iPad mini as fast and I can still make use of it.

Also I tried to make use Google Chrome (forcing request desktop site) and it seemed to work just nicely, but the tab on Chrome 50 crashes frequently.