{"id":665,"date":"2006-04-02T20:37:13","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T00:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=665"},"modified":"2007-03-06T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2007-03-06T20:38:12","slug":"platial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2006\/04\/02\/platial\/","title":{"rendered":"Platial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.platial.com\/images\/welcome\/splash-map3.png\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.platial.com\/images\/welcome\/splash-map1.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.platial.com\">Platial<\/a> enables anyone to find, create and use meaningful maps of Places that matter to them. We hope it can connect people, neighborhoods, cities and countries through a citizen-driven common context that goes beyond geopolitical boundaries. We are building it, because we adore Places.&#8221;Platial is essentially a Google Maps hack that allows you to annotate and share maps with anyone on the World Wide Web. While it&#8217;s easy enough to narrow down and find places you care about (there are quite a few entries on Toronto, for example) services such as these cause me to wonder about who they are for: local psychogeographers or tourists looking for the &#8220;good&#8221; bakery rather than the chain? The story in the &#8220;About Platial&#8221; section was essentially about tourists, and so it inspired a slightly disdainful reaction in me at first, as I thought to myself, &#8220;do the locals need to look up where the &#8220;good&#8221; bakery is? No, they probably already frequent the good bakery.&#8221; What kind of information do locals share? Perhaps the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.platial.com\/anselm\/map\/2889#Sense_of_Smell\">&#8220;Sense of Smell&#8221;<\/a> map? Once the quirky applications of platial.com become apparent, a much more inclusive and interesting picture is painted about places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Platial enables anyone to find, create and use meaningful maps of Places that matter to them. We hope it can connect people, neighborhoods, cities and countries through a citizen-driven common context that goes beyond geopolitical boundaries. 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