Meet your Google Maps Guides:

Name: Maps Guide Jen
Background: Jen's go-to sites, in addition to maps.google.com of course, are National Geographic and the BBC news site. She loves exploring the world and connecting people to make their own explorations better. The last book she read was "the Snow Leopard." Jen will also do almost anything for a bowl of Kraft macaroni and cheese or dark chocolate (but not mixed together).
Hometown: Northbrook, IL
Favorite Cool Map Location: Mount St. Helens

Name: Maps Guide Sirene
Background: Go Blue!
Hometown:  Dearborn Heights, MI
Favorite Map Location: What else? The Big House

Name: Maps Guide Ravi
Background: Ravi spends entirely too much of his life dorking it up with computers and mobile phones. His stable has included 7 different phones in the past 2 years and he's been through at least 4 video cards in his main machine.
Hometown:Sunnyvale, CA
Favorite Map Location: Lamborghini Orange County, Santa Ana, CA

Name: Maps Guide Brian
Background: Loves music, sports, and fun times!
Hometown: Union City, CA
Favorite Map Location: Arizona showing love to Oprah!

Name: Maps Guide Adam
Background: Adam loves geography, cartography, GIS, sports and military history. His favorite teams include:  Denver Broncos, San Francisco Giants, San Jose Sharks, Golden State Warriors, San Jose State Spartans, and the Coventry City Sky Blues
Hometown: Santa Clara, CA
Favorite Map Location:  American aircraft boneyard

Name: Maps Guide Brianna
Background: Brianna loves UCLA sports (Go Bruins!), ice cream, pizza without cheese, long walks on the beach, and John Legend. If I could have all of that in one day, that would be awesome :)

Hometown: San Rafael, CA
Favorite Map Location: Hanalei Bay, Hawaii

Name: Maps Guide Mike
Background: Engineer on the Maps team, pops in from time to time to find problems. Mike grew up in the north west of England, which made him a sunshine addict.
Hometown: Zurich, Switzerland
Favorite Map Location: Desert Island
Guilty pleasure: Sunbathing
Go-to activity in freetime: Sunbathing
Ideal Sunday activity: Sunbathing
Most dubious accomplishment: Getting sunburned :)