Flagstaff, AZ
Top Google Maps contributor with 18 billion views visits Flagstaff on a nationwide visual mapping tour.
Read the release →Level 10 Local Guide since 2016
The man who photographed the map.
Herve Andrieu has posted 317,841 photos to Google Maps, viewed more than 17.9 billion times. He is driving across America, city by city, photographing the places people care about — on an electric unicycle.
On the road — fall 2026
● Flagstaff, AZ — November 4
● Kingman, AZ — November 3
● Henderson, NV — November 2
● Mammoth Lakes, CA — October 2026
Each visit is announced to local press in advance. New stops are added as the tour moves.
317,841photos posted
17.9B+photo views
28,599first photos of places
The tour
A visual mapping tour of America
Ahead of each stop, local newspapers, TV and radio receive a press release about the visit. The goal is simple: every place worth finding should be worth seeing.
Kingman, AZ
Top Google Maps contributor with 18 billion views visits Kingman on a nationwide visual mapping tour.
Read the release →Henderson, NV
Top Google Maps contributor with 18 billion views visits Henderson on a nationwide visual mapping tour.
Read the release →In the press
Covered by the papers he visits
Local coverage of the tour, from France to the Eastern Sierra and the Great Plains.
The Sheet's feature, "The Google Maps Guru Comes to Mammoth Lakes," followed an interview during the October 2026 visit.
Pro services
For businesses that want to be found — and chosen
Most customers meet a business on Google Maps first. Herve helps businesses look their best there, with the eye of someone who has photographed hundreds of thousands of places.
Photo & video coverage
On-location photography and video that shows a place the way customers actually experience it.
Maps presence audit
A plain-English review of a business's Google Maps listing: what is missing, what is wrong, and what to fix first.
Local Guide expertise
Advice grounded in a decade of contributions — what gets views, what gets visits, and what backfires.
Questions
Frequently asked
Herve Andrieu, a Level 10 Google Maps Local Guide since 2016. He has posted 317,841 photos viewed more than 17.9 billion times, and he is travelling the United States photographing places city by city.
Local Guides are volunteers who add reviews, photos, videos and information to Google Maps. Level 10 is the highest level. Herve is one of the most prolific contributors in the world.
Each visit is announced with a press release to local outlets in advance. Journalists can reach Herve at herve@andrieu.us or +1 702 371 3798, and are asked to link googlemaps.guru in the online version of any coverage.
No. Google Maps Guru is Herve Andrieu's independent project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google LLC, and Google Maps is a trademark of Google LLC.
Contact
Say hello
Press, businesses, and fellow mappers:
- Email herve@andrieu.us
- Phone +1 702 371 3798
- Instagram @googlemapsguru