I have just the thing for you. With a chattymap collection, you can tell stories about all those wonderful places and share them with the world:
replyYour description excited me to click the link. Then I was met with a generic landing page and then clicking map didn’t show me a map. It should just be a map with the stories immediately available as markers. Then clicking through to an about link should take you to that secondary content.
replyI agree. What I expected was a place for very personal little stories and journals about specific, hyperlocal spots on Earth. What I got was an empty site for public polls on restaurants in large cities.
replyThat is good feedback - much appreciated.
replyThere isn't enough content to showcase on the map right now but I'll work on that. Give it another go in a couple of weeks or so.
You could seed the map by scraping things like local papers, historical archives, reviews of all kinds, etc. maybe giving them a less prominent appearance compared to user submitted. Getting people using and exploring the tool right away instead of being met with walls of copy and detached forums might be a good move. You could pull the old reddit move and spend a few days adding a tonne of your own stories under different names and/or try and find some others that would be interested in doing the same. Others here would probably tell you to just use LLMs, but I'd avoid that.
replyAs it stands I think you will have a hard time getting people to start filling your database.
My plan is indeed to seed some initial data from areas that I know well.
replyI'm quite into paddle boarding at the moment and in the UK there are a lot of good places to launch from that are not well known so that would be a good niche to start with.
I await with bated breath the entry about that ergonomic log.
replyI wonder if its more common to notice interesting and special places when in nature versus in the built environment. All of your examples are from nature, and most of mine would be too. But considering it further... in college there was a nook I found on the second floor of a nondescript building, where lounge chairs were built into the floor and covered with astroturf, and at just after midday the sun would shine down on it through a sort of compluvium in the roof. I'd been on that campus for almost three years before I discovered it, and only visited a few times because it was quite out of the way. But what a quiet little refuge, I hope its still there.
replyAnd then there's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperart_Thomasson
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replyThis reads like an excerpt from Piranesi by Susanna Clark
replyJust looked at the Piranesi Wikipedia page. The description reminds me of the Heaven Sent episode of Dr Who.
replyThere is not even an entry for a river, mountain, lake, etc? Do you live in the middle of the ocean or desert?
replyAtlas Obscura is your answer to this:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/all-places-in-the-atla...
replyPart of me would want to share these pleasant places with others. Part of me would not.
replyAs first-hand accounts I don't think you could enter these on Wikipedia anyway.
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reply> To the northeast is the spot where I found a perfect arrowhead
replyYou live in an area rich with history stretching back 35 - 50 thousand years
Indeed. The project in the OP is nonsensical to me, because it's impossible to get the desired result by filtering the real Wikipedia. The articles you'd actually want it to have would blatantly violate WP:N, WP:NPOV and especially WP:NOR.
replyI live in the middle of Berlin. This makes the wiki like a sight seeing book. I think the radius is way too big here.
replyDo you have a spare bedroom on Airbnb? Asking for a friend
replyCitation needed.
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