Caption: @Arup 's Star photo of Meridian restaurant onto Google maps on August 01-08-2019 and showing star views of 602,482 as at 26-12-2024
Meridian restaurant, Assam, India, Jorhat
This is my best view photo.I took this photo with my Samsung A10 mobile.These place is still visited by us.Best quality food provides by them at cheapest rates.So, popularity stills earn by them.This is my not best photo but views high only.
Caption: Star photo by @Steve_UK of Carluccio’s, Meadowhall, Sheffield, UK uploaded onto Google Maps on May 2023 and showing star views of 1,001,979 as at 28 Dec 2024
May 2023 is when I found out what a Featured photo was on Google Maps. I took “nice looking” photos for 6 years and didn’t even know you could look at the view count. I believe this photo was from the second day that I deliberately took photos of storefronts… because it mattered what Google wanted, not what I thought was “nice”.
I have a nice camera but you take photos with what you have with you, which is 100% your phone and in this case my Huawei P30.
It’s a bad quality photo in every respect, but you get away with a lot looking at these on phone screens. It’s not like you are going to set up a tripod and camera for these things, although I wish businesses would do that!
Photos are not my big thing with being a Local Guide, but I have to admit that getting one photo to 1M views was a nice thing to happen and that was this week (DEC 2024),
this one has been stuck on 980,000 for nearly a year since the view numbers went a bit wonky at the start of 2024. So almost 1M views in ~9 months, and then 20,000 in the past 12 months despite being the Featured image for this location throughout.
My permalink keeps getting rejected, so am unable to add to the leaderboard
https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t/local-guides-2024-album-of-star-photos/404568/102?u=steve.uk