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Seeing that Google Maps now allows open collaboration, I’ve started a European Travel Map that allows anyone to add to it.

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Feel free to add in any useful info you can think of:
Hotels to avoid, ones that are good
Memorable restaurants
The best pubs & clubs
Engaging museums or art exhibits

I would envisage that in the future, a collaborative knowledge map could be a great resource when planning a trip away - combining hotel reviews and restaurant recommendations with a visual reference to the city - making it easy to find out what fun things there are to do in the area you’re in.

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Grannymar said, November 29th, 2007 at 4:08 pm

Are you setting up in oppoistion to Google?

Damien Mulley » Blog Archive » Fluffy Links - Friday November 30th 2007 said, November 30th, 2007 at 10:55 am

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Deborah said, December 3rd, 2007 at 11:14 am

Really cool idea Elly!

K8 said, December 5th, 2007 at 9:31 am

I’ve a funny feeling I’ll be wasting a lot of time on this today!
Thanks, Elly

Anton Mannering said, December 13th, 2007 at 6:17 am

Have you had a look at http://www.touristr.com. Jan Blanchard has put together a little social network for this exact thing. It’s pretty nifty.

ellybabes said, December 13th, 2007 at 9:53 am

Hi Anton, I’ve been a beta member of touristr for a long time now. It’s a good idea they have there but each time I use it I get frustrated. I don’t like the fact that you had to click into ‘add your story’ for the other fields to come up. I love the simplicity of google maps and the fact that you can add different types of icons to symbolise what you are referring to (transport, eating out, hotels, etc). The user interface just seems to be more intuitive to me as well.

Anton Mannering said, December 13th, 2007 at 2:17 pm

Cool fair point well made! That’s some good feedback. Have you told them? I’ll pass it on if you like.

ellybabes said, December 13th, 2007 at 2:27 pm

I probably should have told them, but haven’t got around to it. Feel free to mention it if you are talking to Jan or Wannita.

Anton Mannering said, December 13th, 2007 at 2:36 pm

I will I’m based in the same building as Jan. He loves feedback. I think they’re changing things a bit at the moment. I’m not sure what though. Ah sure it’ll all come out in the wash…

Fastest Kid said, January 11th, 2008 at 1:33 pm

The simplicity of Google map is what make it so good.

Google team keep thinking of new ways to make our lives easier and make them richer. Your idea is great, will users share the same view?