Disclaimer

I'm a voluntary Google Maps Local Guide with no official affiliation to Google. What I present here are my opinions and experiences and they are not approved or authorized by Google. Also, I'm not a photographer, but an eager local guide enjoying contributing to Google Maps as a hobby.

Google Maps is constantly evolving and new features are added. Such improvements might make parts of this tutorial inaccurate over time.

This tutorial was first published in May 2020.

The following colleagues have kindly contributed to the making of this tutorial. Thank you very much.

Photo Credits

Armando Marchiori, Italy

• 1 image in Spot the photographer

Bjørn Rundal Madsen, Denmark

• 1 image in Spot the photographer

Briggs Jourdan, Australia

• 3 images in Spot the photographer

Ermes Tuon, Italy

• 2 images in Spot the photographer

Kings College London, United Kingdom

• 2 images in Shooting tips

Keith Richard, United Kingdom

• 5 images in Shooting tips
• 1 image in Adjusting
• 4 images in Contribution feedback

Raphael Umse, South Africa

• 6 images in Uploading tips

Torben Mauch, Germany

• 3 images in Spot the photographer

Umair Siddiqui, Pakistan

• 4 images in Shooting tips

All other pics in this tutorial are by MortenCopenhagen.

Inspiration

Thanks to @Briggs, @SveinR, and @TorM for posting excellent insights into their experience and workflow related to photography for Google Maps. Their postings were the major inspiration for this tutorial. Find links to their articles on this page.

Commenting and proofreading

Jan Van Haver, Belgium

Jeroen Mourik, Spain

Josip Posavec, Croatia and Poland

Distribution partners

LocalGuidesConnect.com

Facebook groups:

• Google Local Guides
• Mappers Academy
• Photography - Local Guides
• Local Guides World
• Copenhagen Local Guides

(#soon2come: Insert deeper links to mention)

Sound Credits

Jingles used at the beginning of all videos: Xylophone for cartoon (11) by sergeeo.

Icon Credits

Multimedia icons from Iconfinder.com by Sergey Ershov , Vlad Marin, and Danilo Demarco.

Thanks for reading to the very end! Much appreciated.

Hit "Back" to return to Better Pics Home.