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?
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