Herve Andrieu
Herve Andrieu is a cloud communications specialist at Proximus Global, a Google Maps Level 10 Local Guide since 2016, and an electric unicycle rider — three worlds, one thread: understanding how people and places connect.
About
Herve works in cloud communications, where he is a specialist in virtual numbers — DID, ITFS, UIFN and mobile numbers — with regulatory and technical depth. He writes about numbering, toll-free and contact centers, and about the rules that decide who can use a number and how.
Since 2016 he has also been one of the world's most prolific Google Maps contributors: a Level 10 Local Guide with more than 300,000 photos posted and over 17.9 billion photo views. He is currently travelling the United States in his van, photographing places city by city — usually from an electric unicycle, on which he has ridden 20,482 miles.
Herve is based in Delray Beach, Florida. He is trilingual — English and French native/bilingual, Russian elementary — and holds AWS certifications in Amazon Connect Fundamentals (2025) and Amazon Connect AI Fundamentals (2026). He studied at Télécom Ecole de Management (Institut Mines-Télécom Business School), 1998–2001.
Telecom & Numbering
Herve writes on LinkedIn about the topics he works with every day: virtual numbers, toll-free, KYC and number misuse, and the regulations shaping cloud communications. A selection of his articles:
Regulators worldwide — and in particular the UK's Ofcom — are placing direct responsibility on operators and providers to strictly vet and monitor whoever holds or uses their assigned telephone numbers.
Read on LinkedIn →Despite years of effort, telecom-enabled fraud remains a persistent plague — and some current regulatory trends risk doing more harm than good.
Read on LinkedIn →Under Law No. 2025-594, France has moved from an opt-out model to a strict opt-in model for B2C commercial cold calling.
Read on LinkedIn →Before joining BICS, Herve sat on the customer's side of the desk, managing cloud numbers from over a dozen different vendors.
Read on LinkedIn →Toll-free isn't a monolith: the reality is a complex split between Domestic Toll-Free and International Toll-Free Service (ITFS).
Read on LinkedIn →You don't own your number; you hold a Right of Use — phone numbers are a finite national resource managed by regulatory authorities.
Read on LinkedIn →Germany's 032 national numbers are effectively a dead end for modern contact centers that rely on call queues (waiting loops).
Read on LinkedIn →Outbound calls fail specifically when a toll-free number tries to reach another toll-free number — here's what's happening under the hood.
Read on LinkedIn →Google Maps & Electric Unicycles
As a Google Maps Level 10 Local Guide since 2016, Herve has posted more than 300,000 photos, viewed over 17.9 billion times. His nationwide visual mapping tour visits cities across the United States, photographing storefronts and places at no cost to local businesses — usually riding an electric unicycle.
The tour, the press releases, and pro services for businesses that want to be found — and chosen — on Google Maps.
Visit googlemaps.guru →20,482 miles of total riding distance as of November 2, 2026 — the unicycle is how the tour covers a city's storefronts.
20,482 miles and countingGoogle Maps Guru is Herve Andrieu's independent project. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google LLC.
Press
Herve's Google Maps work has been covered by outlets in France and across the United States.
The Sheet's feature, "The Google Maps Guru Comes to Mammoth Lakes," followed an interview during the October 2026 visit.
Contact
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