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Openplaces is a travel search engine, and a creative commons project to build the world's largest organized repository of maps, pictures, details, and advice about every place in the world that anyone has ever travelled to. Anyone can contribute.
Planning a trip is fun, but it's not easy. People spend hours researching their next journey, gathering hundreds of pieces of information from dozens...More»
Openplaces is a travel search engine, and a creative commons project to build the world's largest organized repository of maps, pictures, details, and advice about every place in the world that anyone has ever travelled to. Anyone can contribute.
Planning a trip is fun, but it's not easy. People spend hours researching their next journey, gathering hundreds of pieces of information from dozens of sites, most of them useless. The web has empowered us, but now we're overloaded by dead-ends and commercial opportunism. Openplaces is attempting to aggregate, classify, and structure all of the travel information on the web in a single and easy to use location.«Less
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| Date | Type | Capital Amount | Post-Money Valuation | Investors |
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| 2008 | Series A | Unknown | Unknown |
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| Name: | openplaces |
| Product URL: | http://www.openplaces.org/ |
| Description: | - The problem: people spending hours researching their next journey, gathering hundreds of pieces of information from dozens of sites–most of them useless. - The semantic web is a vision of information that is understandable by computers, so that they can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, sharing, and combining information on the web." [Wikipedia] Openplaces is project that uses semantic search and user-generated content in order to make your trip planning experience a lot better. |
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