A 'SPOT-RELATED PHOTO-DATABASE'.... What's this all about?
The platform and framework MyGreatWorld.com provides serves one main reason:
MyGreatWorld.com is a visual database of locations.
This is great for travelers. Making plans for holidays sometimes proves to be unexpected hard work:
In contrast to the pictures in the advertising glossy magazins the real
place often turns out to be some dirty and f*cked up location in the middle of
nowhere (or right in the centre of everything).
Therefore finding reliable information turns out to be the
linchpin and challenge in every holidaymaking-strategy and photos made by residents or fellow traverlers help immensely.
But MyGreatWorld.com offers more than that: Within the upload-procedure the users insert their pictures in a coherent framework of regional and contextual categories that gives an easy access to key-information.
The Advanced Search is a mighty and unique tool to search the database:
Users can for example search for pictures in the categories 'Beach, Coast & Port' and 'Sports & Activity' taken in August in the year 2005 in France, in the city of Lyon that were uploaded by user ffranz101 containing the keywords 'boat' and 'red'.
By using these options it also gets possible to search locations systematically for changes in the run of the years.
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When Marco Stuewe and Thorsten Scherff called MyGreat
into life their aim was to establish an open and non-commercial platform for
every user to share his/her impressions of any place on earth. They wanted to
create a database for all the international main destinations which would allow
for a simple and fast access both to pictures of a place or landscape and to
user-comments on the respective location.
In the course of planning this project, however, they soon had to discover that
there were far more spectacular places in the world than they had dared to
imagine - ... and that some other fields of interest would round up their
database-project nicely. Within a time span of just a few days more than 150
internet-domains were thought of and registered and are by now constantly and
freely offered to the community for the benefit of everyone.
Being full-time employed in other business areas Marco and Thorsten struggle to
keep up the administration of all the MyGreat Pages. To help
them doing so anyone is invited to donate any small amount of cash to
help MyGreat to live on and to continue growing. Today the MyGreat
Pages that have to be or soon will have to be administrated include (among others!):
del.icio.us
Mister Wong
Yahoo Bookmarks
