Okay, not only is the Google Maps team continuously releasing new features, I’m now also receiving an increasing amount of messages from fellow local guides and podcast listeners about novelties they have noticed. So, it is high time for another news & updates episode. Do stick around until the end, as I’m also covering a few news items that I have not shared anywhere yet.
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- Email: letsguidepodcast@gmail.com
- Reach out to me on Twitter: LocalGuidesGuru
- My personal blog: janvanhaver.com
- The local guides section on my blog
- Find me on Connect
- Announcement on Connect about Road Mapper
- Amiran’s Connect post on Road Editor
- Amiran’s Connect post on dynamic search results
- Amiran’s post to launch the PURIFY campaign
- Connect post by FrancescDomingo on the new pictures layout
- Connect post by Trail_Blazer on the new pictures layout
- Announcement on Connect about lists
- Google’s tweet about using emojis on lists
- Google’s blogpost about AI-based emojis (under point 3)
- Connect post by Kumaarsantosh about captions
- YouTube video by Naresh Darji about captions
- GoLoco (Adrian Lunsong) YouTube video on captions
- Android Authority blogpost on a possible chatbot in Maps
- Android Police article about the new color scheme
- AutoEvolutions’s criticism of the new color scheme
- My overview post with regular updates on new categories
- Sign up to become a local guide yourself
- Local Guides Connect – the official forum for Local Guides
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