Auto-Geo-Biography : Map Your Life on PLATIAL

The best street food in NYC? To find out, try out the new and growing community site called 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.”

You might say PLATIAL is 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 (using static data, mixing it up with an open mapping platform to create a new web application) 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. And yes, there are maps pinpointing the best street food in NYC; also maps tracking where all the taco trucks are located in SoCal; and even maps highlighting a PLATIAL user’s trail of heartbreak across the UK.

Thank you for the site Raina!

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* To sign up & check out the PLATIAL website, click here.
Add me to your list (username: Tami)— PS: the site’s still new, so (in the words of my friend Raina) if you’re lucky you may not end up being Bob129. Hmmm, incentive to sign up in a hurry, me thinks!

* Read Wired Magazine’s article about PLATIAL, here.