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Show HN: Mapname - anonymous social network for organising points
of interest
Hello HN, with mapname you can create a unique name for any
particular point of interest as in
prefix(id).group(optional).suffix. Once a mapname created then
this can be used as an address, discovered and socialised. Mapname
is free and has no advertisements. At onboarding pick a unique
prefix. That is all about onboarding. Users can also organise
collection of places with just two words, for example coffee shops
i like at NY is abc.1 or I have visited Melbourne last year where
you can see at abc.melbourne Mapname designed as an anonymous
Social Network where users particular perspective engage with like
minded users, instead of their persona. Personal Images are not
promoted. Here is one minute user guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G42THV9YcY4 More mapnames are on
twitter https://twitter.com/NameYourWay You can consider this as
"Pinterest of coordinates" Another way to think this; mapname(s)
to coordinate(s) is similar to domain name(s) to ip address(es).
Instead of hard to remember IP Addresses we use domain names.
Similarly instead of coordinates or map list urls a mapname can be
in use. Between mapname and a coordinate 1->1 or N->1 or 1->N
relationships are possible. Whenever a mapname visited, the most
relevant what3words attached to it so that you may communicate
whichever is more relevant. Mapname is trying to reduce friction
while describing addresses and organising points of interests, for
transportation, navigation, directions uses integrations. A
mapname can be viewed in your favourite maps (Google Maps, Apple
Maps, Yandex Maps, Bing Maps, Baidu Maps) or with what3words,
citymapper, waze. it is available on android & ios, feel free play
with it, any feedback or question is appreciated. What other
location/navigation/map integration would you benefit?
Author : bnd
Score : 47 points
Date : 2023-05-20 11:53 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (map.name)
(TXT) w3m dump (map.name)
| Freak_NL wrote:
| > A mapname can be viewed in your favorite maps (Google Maps,
| Apple Maps, Yandex Maps, Bing Maps, Baidu Maps) [...]
|
| No it can't. OpenStreetMap is missing.
|
| I can't find a link to actually view this product, except for the
| app store links. Is the website broken?
| bnd wrote:
| this product is available on app store and google play, web
| interface is not available yet
|
| Good point, OSM will be added
| lisasays wrote:
| Agreed - a web interface would be very significant boost.
|
| The idea certainly has potential, but first one needs to
| _see_ the aggregate results (for which phones are way too
| tiny, and require on to be ... on one 's phone)
| bnd wrote:
| at first attempt, mapname tries to alias coordinate, so
| that you can talk about the place without sharing a url.
| you may say I am at lisasays.1 or last year I have visited
| lisasays.a or if you are recording a video you may annotate
| them like subtitles so that your viewers can see what is
| happening at which location without you providing any map
| urls
|
| apart from that core feature, I agree that many options can
| be provided for personalised browsing of this data
| depending on the client type
| pimlottc wrote:
| I still don't really understand what this is. An anonymous shared
| Pinterest board tied to a location?
| bnd wrote:
| imagine you create a label for a location in Google Maps but it
| works in Apple Maps too (as well as other Maps), label can be
| used as an address and collection of them shows a particular
| perspective of yours.. for example: abc.tapas shows tapas bars
| you visited in Barcelona, assume abc is your id..
|
| similarity with Pinterest is, user bookmark/collect places with
| optionally emoji, image and description as they met interesting
| enough spots
| fortyseven wrote:
| When even the comments are devoid of examples...
| bnd wrote:
| 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
| [deleted]
| tlhunter wrote:
| I tried doing something similar with my app, Map Buddy. The
| current iteration requires user accounts to create content but
| the previous iteration, Whisper, was entirely anonymous.
| bnd wrote:
| apart from being anonymous, one of the core idea in mapname is
| to convert anywhere into an address of the form
| prefix(id).group(optional).suffix
|
| mapname needs an account to associate the prefix with the
| account id, but does not store or use any other user info.
| (such as email, name or other)
|
| Only if user signs up with google account, profile photo of the
| logged in account is in use, that may be replaced with a random
| or optional avatar.
| janalsncm wrote:
| I wish the world map would show me some points of interest.
| Otherwise, cool concept.
| bnd wrote:
| podium is the place for discovering random points of interests,
| at ios it is segregated into types nature, art, life, food..
|
| at world map you can either find the points of interests you
| saved or others saved publicly
|
| search a user ex: mia then on its profile you can click Map
| View
|
| yes, it is good idea to add suggestions to world map too
| sergiomattei wrote:
| I think this is awesome! App is hard to use though.
| bnd wrote:
| yes, UX must be improved a lot. Many finds it quite difficult
| to use
| cobertos wrote:
| I downloaded the Android app but when clicking the privacy policy
| or terms to read them I'm redirected to the sign-in screen and
| they don't open.
|
| Also, as a point of perspective, I like using things like this to
| find new places to visit. I have a big list in Google Maps/OSMAnd
| of interesting places I've found locally, which aren't the
| easiest to find considering how rural this area is.
|
| EDIT: Seems hard to find places near me? The world map doesn't
| show all places, and I can't really search for "nearby" users? I
| have no interest in looking at a global feed, there's no utility
| there for me unfortunately
| bnd wrote:
| thank you for reporting this,
|
| yes one of the main intention is to advise less obvious spots
| based on what you create, like or follow. if you are visiting
| London, Trip Advisor top 10 can be good enough but less obvious
| places that locals find interesting may be found at mapname
|
| since such lists can grow too big, mapname will provide options
| to manage and share, suggest these lists too
| bnd wrote:
| Feed is the option where you get content from other users you
| follow,
|
| Podium is a collection of regional and global content but since
| the app recently launched it does not have much content,
|
| ideally you should be getting a combination of global and
| regional content on the podium segregated by content type (art,
| food, life .. ) in the android version there is single Podium
| and also content should be interesting enough and should not
| contain personal images/selfies to make it up to Podium.
| gabea wrote:
| What is the short version that describes what problem this might
| solve for a user?
| bnd wrote:
| communicating a location or group of places
| lazyasciiart wrote:
| How is this usefully different to What Three Words?
| bnd wrote:
| 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 you build what you interested and
| where you interested
|
| 4. As you are creating content such as movie or documentary you
| may annotate it with the mapname prefix then you can point out
| all the relevant locations within the app without referring to
| it
|
| for the next few features will focus on adding more
| organisation features such as boards, guides, todo lists where
| collection of mapnames presented and also once you create a
| mapname relevant apps will be available for navigation
|
| you can also consider this as a nickname for your what3words
| instead of saying apple.art.love you may say lazyasciiart.1,
| Which one would you like to communicate is up to you as both
| available once you view a mapname
|
| as a shorter answer you may think mapname as an anonymous
| social network for organising points of interest
| toomim wrote:
| > 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.
| bnd wrote:
| sgtpepper.norway.torden
| https://twitter.com/NameYourWay/status/1657721856781066241/p...
|
| sgtpepper.norway.spring sgtpepper.norway.glow
| https://twitter.com/NameYourWay/status/1657721426013503490
| bnd wrote:
| 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
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