The data on Google Maps is mainly updated and verified by a community called Local Guides. Google simply do all all of this by its own. Local Guides program is a voluntary program where Local Guides are free to contribute to keeping Maps updated as useful for everyone at their own leisure.

Here are the highlights from 2017. The highlight of the year so far has to be Google Developer Days 2017 at Bangalore. It was an awesome experience.

Other key highlights from 2017 are.

I think it’s everyone’s childhood dream to be able to fly like the birds one day. They we grow up :).

In our current busy lives, people have no time to look or protect the nature that is around us.

I was excited to read the newest Robert Langdon book Origin expecting a fresh adventure after the good Inferno. Unfortunately it felt a complete waste of time and money when I was done. It got me thinking about the story structure that is common to all Robert Langdon novels.

I was fortunate to get an invitation to attend the first ever Google Developer Days event in India. We need to register on the google Developers site.I was surprised and excited when I received an email confirming my participation. Travel plans and stay arrangements were made and the long wait to Dec started.

The last release for Trip O Meter was in July. Last week, I was modifying some other configuration in the project, and all of a sudden the Trip O Meter Travis Builds started failing. I had setup the CI builds for every check in with the latest release Fig and Camelot.

Fig and Camelot are release code names for below Projects. This is the first time, we are having multiple releases in the same month. Detailed change logs and release information are available in the respective GitHub repos.

• Fig - AeAppsLib
• Camelot - Trip O Meter

A huge update for Trip O Meter was completed last month. A quick glance over the change log as follows.

• Added “Trip Expenses” feature
• More than 180 change sets committed
• More than 70 files created or modified
• Supports Permission checks for Marshmallow and Up
• Refreshed UI

By the sheer volume of change, this has been the biggest app update I have worked on. “Trip Expenses” allows you to manage your expenses while on a trip. Setup a trip and add your expenses, and the app would calculate the share for each person.

The latest version of Trip O Meter is available on the Google Play Store now.

We have released the latest version of Message Counter developed with codename Unicorn this week.

While learning some commands on Ubuntu Terminal, I came across one called apt-get autoremove. This was actually suggested by the terminal when I was playing around with apt-get.

Whenever an application is installed using apt-get, the system will also install dependend software. It is common in Ubuntu/Linux that applications share the same libraries. But when you you remove an appplication, the dependency will not be removed as it may be used by another application.

When we run sudo apt-get autoremove, it will remove the dependencies that were installed with applications and that are no longer used by anything else on the system.

I was able to save around 1 GB of disk space when I ran this command. How much space could you save?