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Re: Show HN: Mapname – anonymous social network for organising points of interest

#14

How is this usefully different to What Three Words?

1. User assigns name under the onboarded prefix instead of automatic creation, for example let say, your id is lazyasciiart then you may share your id as the names you bookmark publicly

2. You may use groups as you create mapnames, for example coffee as a group then you may say lazyasciiart.coffee then it will map to several locations

3. Your experience is socialised so that you may follow relevant content, overtime you build what you interested and where you interested

4. As you are creating content such as movie or documentary you may annotate it with the mapname prefix then you can point out all the relevant locations within the app without referring to it

for the next few features will focus on adding more organisation features such as boards, guides, todo lists where collection of mapnames presented and also once you create a mapname relevant apps will be available for navigation

you can also consider this as a nickname for your what3words instead of saying apple.art.love you may say lazyasciiart.1, Which one would you like to communicate is up to you as both available once you view a mapname

as a shorter answer you may think mapname as an anonymous social network for organising points of interest

Re: Show HN: Mapname – anonymous social network for organising points of interest

#15

I still don’t really understand what this is. An anonymous shared Pinterest board tied to a location?

imagine you create a label for a location in Google Maps but it works in Apple Maps too (as well as other Maps), label can be used as an address and collection of them shows a particular perspective of yours.. for example: abc.tapas shows tapas bars you visited in Barcelona, assume abc is your id..

similarity with Pinterest is, user bookmark/collect places with optionally emoji, image and description as they met interesting enough spots

Re: Show HN: Mapname – anonymous social network for organising points of interest

#17
I downloaded the Android app but when clicking the privacy policy or terms to read them I'm redirected to the sign-in screen and they don't open.

Also, as a point of perspective, I like using things like this to find new places to visit. I have a big list in Google Maps/OSMAnd of interesting places I've found locally, which aren't the easiest to find considering how rural this area is.

EDIT: Seems hard to find places near me? The world map doesn't show all places, and I can't really search for "nearby" users? I have no interest in looking at a global feed, there's no utility there for me unfortunately

Re: Show HN: Mapname – anonymous social network for organising points of interest

#18

I downloaded the Android app but when clicking the privacy policy or terms to read them I'm redirected to the sign-in screen and they don't open. Also, as a point of perspective, I like using things like this to find new places to visit. I have a big list in Google Maps/OSMAnd of interesting places I've found locally, which aren't the easiest to find considering how rural this area is. EDIT: Seems hard to find places…

thank you for reporting this,

yes one of the main intention is to advise less obvious spots based on what you create, like or follow. if you are visiting London, Trip Advisor top 10 can be good enough but less obvious places that locals find interesting may be found at mapname

since such lists can grow too big, mapname will provide options to manage and share, suggest these lists too

Re: Show HN: Mapname – anonymous social network for organising points of interest

#19

I downloaded the Android app but when clicking the privacy policy or terms to read them I'm redirected to the sign-in screen and they don't open. Also, as a point of perspective, I like using things like this to find new places to visit. I have a big list in Google Maps/OSMAnd of interesting places I've found locally, which aren't the easiest to find considering how rural this area is. EDIT: Seems hard to find places…

Feed is the option where you get content from other users you follow,

Podium is a collection of regional and global content but since the app recently launched it does not have much content,

ideally you should be getting a combination of global and regional content on the podium segregated by content type (art, food, life .. ) in the android version there is single Podium and also content should be interesting enough and should not contain personal images/selfies to make it up to Podium.

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