Pinpoint your travel adventures on Mapness
Written on March 16, 2008 – 8:14 am
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
Every week we publish an interview with a start-up. We ask five questions, hoping the answers will give you inspiration and new views. Well, actually six questions, since we also ask the start-up to who he or she is passing the mic to.
This week we’re interviewing Wojciech Kosinski. He’s a developer at Polish start-up Mapness. Our UK WebTipr David Petherick met him during start-upcamp in London. Mapness is a Google Maps-based service that allows you to share your travel experience. You can pinpoint on the map where you’ve been and what you saw - videos and photos are easy to add.
How did you come up with the idea of Mapness?
“Founder Mike is a keen biker and travels a lot. He has a map of Poland hanging on the wall in his house. He used to put little pins in the places he has visited, connecting them with a thread thus creating a kind of a route taken on a journey. One day he found out that there is no good place on the web to do something like that. That’s how the idea of Mapness came to live.” (more…)
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