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I was selected to go to Local Guides summit 2017, so I got a free vacation to San Fransisco. And it was really an awesome trip, great food, great parties, great people. So because of this trip, I have to say Local Guides is better in my opinion. But only 150 are selected to go to this every year.

Other than the summit. Local Guides gave me a free movie ticket, and free Google Drive storage, and a local guide shirt.

I've also earned money as a Google Trusted photographer https://www.google.com/streetview/hire/ where Google recommends me to local businesses and I get paid to do 360 photos of their business

For Yelp, I've been Yelp Elite since the beginning of 2018 and haven't gotten any rewards or gone to any Elite events or anything yet. But I do have to say that I feel like Yelp's community is better and more appreciative of my contributions. For example Yelp gives me notifications when people like my photos and like my reviews, and it's just nice knowing that people do appreciate them.

I'd recommend just contributing to both. Just save a copy of your photos and reviews and submit them to both.

I believe it was July of 2016 when they had a sort of contest for Parks and Recreation Month where every photo you contributed to a park would enter you into a drawing for a Ricoh Theta S. That's about the closest to a "deal" they've ever come.

You might try the camera lending program. There was a guy on here awhile back that was able to borrow a Theta S from them to do 360 images of some hot air balloon festival.

It was a tool that was a bit like Open Street Map is now, it allowed users to actually create content on the Map - you could define boundaries, edit and create roads, rivers, railway lines etc, draw buildings (and edit existing ones). At one point you could create 3D models of the buildings too in a separate tool.

Initially edits were moderated by Google and other editors but as you did more and more you seemed to gain a trust level and some would happen immediately.

Unfortunately this left it open to abuse and at one point someone mapped out a huge Android robot urinating on an Apple logo with another mapped feature saying "Google review policy is crap" :)

They locked it down after that and limited it to a handful of places (like Bangladesh, Brazil, India) but then eventually gave more access back in other locales.

Then they just closed it all down.

Wonder if its this cocaine used to be in a few stores but it's been hard to find in the last few years (energy drink)

The long standing listing can't be merged into your's, rather your's needs to be deleted.

There's ways to get it fixed if you were the only one involved, but since they themselves are involved they should fix it. What they need to do is use Google My Business to claim the feature, which can only be done by the business owner or their representative. The claim process itself likely will fix it, but if it doesn't then GMB has support that will help.

You can borrow a trekker here. https://www.google.com/streetview/loan/

You can also work with a pro here https://www.google.com/streetview/contacts-tools/

Which park? I helped map a few including Yellowstone.

Just to clarify Streetview is 360 photos taken by the Google cars. And there are 360 photos inside of businesses. They are two separate things.

Anybody can contribute 360 photos of businesses. You just use the Streetview iOS or Android app, and you can walk in a circle several times with any smart phone, and the app stitches together a 360 photo. Or you can use a 360 camera like the Theta foe example https://www.amazon.com/Ricoh-Theta-360-Spherical-Camera/dp/B074W5BKYS/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1529612699&sr=8-3&keywords=theta

I just became a "Google Trusted photographer" by contributing good quality 360 photos for free on my own, and after a certain number I got a message in the app that asked if I wanted to join the Google Trusted photographer program.

You can also loan the streetview equipment which might be what you're talking about https://www.google.com/streetview/loan/

I'm a level 9. I have 79,877 points. Mostly from 15,444 photos.

Part of your role as a Street View Trusted photographer includes helping businesses create and/or verify a Maps listing if the business hasn't already done so. See "Verified Listings" on this page. I'm thinking this is what made OP conflate the two.

You can become a Street View Trusted photographer and sell your services to businesses and all that: https://www.google.com/streetview/hire/

I gave it a shot because there wasn't one in my city and thought I could make some good scratch. Turns out unless you're in a bigger, more tech-savvy area there probably won't be a lot of interest. I wasn't too keen on slavishly advertising and going door-to-door so I bailed. Now I just do stuff for fun.

I stopped contributing to Google Maps last year, after being frustrated at exactly this.

Openstreetmaps is the thing. I've been happily mapping in there ever since. Apps like https://www.magicearth.com/ are just as good as Google Maps, if not better, and if the map is poor near you, you can update it and make it better for everyone.

I did some really good mapping, when we could actually do that, adding paths, roads and buildings. Google took all that away, instead of building better moderation tools. It killed it for me, sadly.

I just checked on https://one.google.com and if you scroll down on the main page you can click on view benefits and it will show there... So you don't need the Android app... Please note you have to have the 2tb a count which needed a higher local guides level...

There is a paid tasks app from google. You get google play money for answering some questions. The questions bring more money if your localguide level is high or many people have seen your localguide activities.

It's not much but ok to buy some apps.

The one that I use and can recommend is Power Director. I used it to edit and create videos that I uploaded to YouTube on my Samsung Galaxy S8 while I was on holiday in Japan. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyberlink.powerdirector.DRA140225_01 Another one I tried was kinomaster, similar but I found power director similar to video editing programs on windows. Just drag and drop your videos and music into the app and render. Good luck!

Google Photos can create photo/video montage. (free, iOS, Android).

Quik was intended for GoPro users, but you can import photos/videos from your phone. Make montages. Make sure you go into options and turn off the watermark. (free, iOS, Android)

Adobe Premiere Rush is probably the most powerful. It's been a while since I played with it, but I think you can export one video for free. Anything after that, you have to pay for subscription. (kinda free, iOS)