How to get the new badges on Google Maps

How can I get the new badges?

If you want to earn the Reviewer badge, you'll need to apply yourself to the art of writing reviews. And you will need.

• Beginning Reviewer: rate and review 3 places, verify 3 edits, and answer 25 questions.
• Expert Reviewer: rate and review 25 places, write reviews of more than 200 characters and have written reviews that have been rated as helpful up to 5 times.
• Master Reviewer: rate and review 100 places, write 50 reviews of more than 200 characters, and write reviews that have been rated as helpful 50 times.

You will earn the Photographer badge if you do the following:

• Beginner Photographer: Add photos from 3 places and get more than 1,000 views.
• Expert Photographer: Add 100 photos, include photos from 25 locations and get more than 100,000 views.
• Master Photographer: Add 1,000 photos and 100 more photos of places, get more than a million views.

To get hold of Inquirer, you'll also need to work hard:

• Beginning Inquirer: Suggest 3 modifications, verify 3 edits, and answer 25 questions.
• Expert Inquirer: Suggest 25 modifications, verify 25 edits, and answer 250 questions.
• Master Inquirer: Suggest 100 modifications, verify 100 edits, and answer 1,000 questions.

And finally, as a Pioneer you will have to work hard by doing the following.

• Beginner Pioneer: Add the first photo to a place, the first review, and a new place.
• Expert Pioneer: Add first photo and review to 10 new places and add 10 new places.
• Master Pioneer: Add first photo and review to 50 new places and add 50 new places.

Old contributions count too

Be careful, what you have done so far will not be lost.Old contributions, be they reviews, edits or photos will count towards the new badges All you have to do to check if you already have one is to access to the section that summarizes your contributions as a Local Guide on Google Maps.

If you still don't have any, you still have to work a little harder. As you can see, Google doesn't make it easy. So if you want to boost your ego as a Local Guide, it's time to get down to business.

The new badges are coming to the Google Maps application with version 9.63.1. However, they may not yet be available to common users. These new options will be rolling out shortly.