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

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Post by bnd »

toomim wrote: post #21

> with mapname you can create a unique name for any particular point of interest as in prefix(id).group(optional).suffix. Please give an example.

sgtpepper.norway.torden https://twitter.com/NameYourWay/status/1657721856781066241/p...

sgtpepper.norway.spring sgtpepper.norway.glow https://twitter.com/NameYourWay/status/1657721426013503490

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

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Post by bnd »

fortyseven wrote: post #22

When even the comments are devoid of examples...

https://twitter.com/NameYourWay/status/1647543597674160134/p... mary.neapolis

in this example mary.neapolis is the precise address of a restaurant in Naples/Italy where you can open it within your favourite maps app, you can rename it or you can follow the user in case suggest similar places

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

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Post by bnd »

bnd wrote: post #23
toomim wrote: post #21

> with mapname you can create a unique name for any particular point of interest as in prefix(id).group(optional).suffix. Please give an example.

sgtpepper.norway.torden https://twitter.com/NameYourWay/status/1657721856781066241/p... sgtpepper.norway.spring sgtpepper.norway.glow https://twitter.com/NameYourWay/status/1657721426013503490

here user sgtpepper pick a suffix and put it under group norway under the group norway he also create spring and glow too when you search sgtpepper you will reach all of his mapnames and when you search group sgtpepper.norway you will see all the mapnames under the group norway

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

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

bnd wrote: post #14
lazyasciiart wrote: post #12

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…

From your comments and how high it is on your website, it seems "prefix.group(optional).suffix" is a very important feature. Building on your above comment, perhaps it would be a good idea to explain how it works and why it is so important on your website?

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

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Post by bnd »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #27
bnd wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

From your comments and how high it is on your website, it seems "prefix.group(optional).suffix" is a very important feature. Building on your above comment, perhaps it would be a good idea to explain how it works and why it is so important on your website?

yes, thank you for the suggestion. How a mapname constructured can be explained better.

User gets a handle/prefix during the onboarding and this is all about the onboarding. After that whenever somewhere is mapnamed, mapname starts with a prefix. if a user wants to add it to a group, then mapname becomes prefix.group.suffix otherwise it is prefix.suffix

Example: Let say prefix that you take during the onboarding is drkiszonka then you would like to mapname your favourite restaurant x then the restaurants mapname becomes drkiszonka.x instead of describing where it is you only say my favourite restaurant is at drkiszonka.x When someone search drkiszonka.x then they can find the exact coordinate of drkiszonka.x and they can able to open it in Google Maps, Apple Maps, Yandex Maps, Bing Maps, Baidu Maps or with what3words, citymapper, waze

if you like to group your restaurant under a group id, while mapnaming it with x you choose a group. Let say group that you choose is Madrid then the restaurant mapname becomes drkiszonka.madrid.x if you like to refer all the mapnames under this group then you say drkiszonka.madrid

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