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PublicEarth - User Generated Wiki Database of Travel Places
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on February 8, 2010
PublicEarth.com is a user generated wiki service that delivers interesting, unique and up-to-date travel places information in a personalized way.
Huge Database of Travel Places
Currently PublicEarth offers an ever-expanding database of nearly five million places, across 450 categories including such esoteric topics such as “Nut Harvesting”, “Famous Death Locations”, and “Glass-blowing Studios” etc.
As you search or browse categories, it pulls information in Google maps, and then applies a customized categorization and set of data fields to each entry.
The real value to PublicEarth is that every one can create a point of interest, draw a boundary line around a park, or trace a route to walk or hike.
Manage Personal Places with “Placebooks”
On PublicEarth, you can create and maintain “Placebooks” which organize and manage you personal locations for ease in sharing, searching, and travel planning and activity discovery.
You can also access these Placebooks on a GPS device, a mobile phone or e-mail them to friends. PublicEarth also lets you display your saved places on your own website or blog by creating and embedding a widget.
The site even comes with an API that allows developers to access PublicEarth’s huge database of recommendations.
CouchSurfing - Making Connections between Travelers and Local Communities
Posted by ilovegajeebo in Daily Featured Websites on April 13, 2009
CouchSurfing.com is a service that helps you find places to stay and people to hang out with when you are traveling.
Making Connections between Travelers and Local Communities
You can browse through detailed profiles of those offering accommodation including their interests and job, as well as what their home is like and what sleeping arrangements they are expected to provide.
The site displays responses from active members, their past experiences with other members, and friends made via CouchSurfing.com who “vouch” for their character and trustworthiness.
Why should I use it?
Its a community which benefits by sharing each others resources and experiences. When you happen to visit a totally new place, the local people’s guidance definitely comes handy. You can repay the hospitality in your hometown, meeting worldly folk with adventurous agendas and finding that your own back yard is a place of wonder to a traveler.
After becoming a Members you can use the website to coordinate contacts and home accommodation with other network members around the world. Members post a profile displaying a brief introduction of themselves, some basic personal information, their geographical location, and whether they are willing to host others in their homes.
Their system use credit card verification system, a personal vouching system and personal references to increase security and trust between members. The site offers other features such as discussion groups, events and meetings and live chat.
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