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Platial | The Collaborative Atlas | Map Your Life

ARCHIVE: The best street food in NYC? To find out, go to the growing community site PLATIAL, which its co-creators hope "enables anyone to find, create and use meaningful maps of Places that matter to them. We hope it can connect people, neighborhoods, cities and countries through a citizen-driven common context that goes beyond geopolitical boundaries."

Platial is like a cross between MapQuest and a blog. It's perfect for "neogeographers" who wish to use digital maps to tell stories. The site uses mashups to create customized maps, much in the same way inside game communities such as Second Life or World of Warcraft include maps of the virtual reality worlds within them.

Sign up for a FREE account on Platial, and start building and sharing your own personalized maps that mark, tag and describe your favorite and unique points of interest from your favorite sushi haunt to the place you had your first kiss.

More: Official website @ http://platial.com | Read Wired Magazine's article @ www.wired.com

And yes, there are maps pinpointing the best street food in NYC; maps tracking all the taco trucks located in SoCal; and even maps highlighting a Platial user’s trail of heartbreak across the UK.

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Another site along these lines is 43 Places. It's great for travelling and finding out neat neighbourhoods and quirky things to do in them, as well as having great integration with 43 Things (personal goals tracking), and 43 People. Oh, the things we did in the days before Facebook! LOL.

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