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Danie

Social mapping platform Atly launches with $18M to be a Reddit for real-world locations… But is there place in the market for more such apps?

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Founded out of Israel in 2019, Atly claims to be creating the “next social paradigm for mapping and discovering places to go.” It’s all about finding new restaurants, hiking trails, bike rental places, gluten-free eateries, record stores, rooftop bars, free public toilets, and all the rest.

Through the web or mobile app, users can create their own theme-specific community, after which they become the manager for that community, including setting rules for engagement and permissions around what other users can do in that community.

According to Maslansky, Atly is not generating any revenue itself yet, but some of its users are already earning by “gating their community” to paid members.

It’s true that Google is rather slow nowadays in developing exciting new features (just look at far ahead Waze was on that front, so they got bought out), but there is also a lot to be said about “where most people are”. That “where” is often the “why” which stops users migrating off to a new service, because their contacts are all in one place and there is a mass of useful information already available. So certainly, in this regard Google Maps has pretty good reviews, ratings, photos, and other info (as does Yelp). But possibly Atly will appeal to non-Google Map users still.

But what Atly is hoping will differentiate it, is a truly more social aspect, versus just a map with lots of reviews just posted to it. The Reddit concept has worked well, but it has no geolocation / mapping type organisation.

See https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/social-mapping-platform-atly-launches-with-18m-to-be-a-reddit-for-real-world-locations/
#Blog, #Atly, #mapping, #places, #reviews, #technology

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danie10@squeet.me
Danie

Visit to Spice Route Destination and De Villiers Chocolate outside Cape Town

4 slabs of hand crafted chocolate labelled Dark, Sea Salt with Caramel, and Coffee
Spice Route Destination is about 45 minutes drive, along the N1, from Cape Town. It is in Paarl South, situated right next door to the the Fairview Wine Estate (Goats, Cheese and Wine). It has great views facing back towards Cape Town and Table Mountain.

There are quite a few businesses situated at the location but of interest to us were the De Villiers Hand Crafted Chocolates (and they had a 20% off sale!), the CBC Craft Beer Brewery, and the restaurants. We paid R30pp to do chocolate tasting and we bought a few chocolates. Info on the chocolates at https://devillierschocolate.com/. Of course there are also wine sales, the Wilderer Distillery making artisan gin, and a few others vendors. See https://www.spiceroute.co.za/.

We had lunch at La Grapperia Bistro and Pizzeria and enjoyed the great view. We both had a seafood pizza for only R130 each. The beer of course was freshly brewed 100m North of us.

After lunch we enjoyed two scoops of hand-crafted ice cream. The chocolate is especially tasty as, of course, it has real high-quality chocolate in it!

It was also a chance to use the Galaxy S23 Ultra phone camera bit. So, there are some wide angle, 3x and 10x optical zoom shots.

See all the photos at https://photos.app.goo.gl/LqWMg4n4T3fGJ3RQA
#Blog, #brewery, #capetown, #chocolate, #places, #southafrica

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yew@diasp.eu
YA

Top 20 Forbidden Places On Earth: Places You CANNOT Visit

Snake Island. A place you cannot access and a place where you really don’t want to go. Snake Island is a small island located off the coast of Brazil and contains 4,000 of the DEADLIEST snakes on the planet.

Their venom is so powerful that it can MELT human flesh. This island has been deemed so dangerous that the Brazilian Government banned visitors from accessing it.

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Top 20 Forbidden Places On Earth: Places You CANNOT Visit

On this Earth, unbeknownst to many, there are more than a dozen places that are absolutely forbidden to visit. In any way.

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David

Falsehoods programmers believe about geography

The lesson is clear. There are no safe assumptions. Addresses should not have parts. Just let people write the address without assuming it has any definable parts. Yes, that interferes with creating searchable databases. Deal with it.

https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/15187

Places have only one official name
Place names follow the character rules of the language
Place names can be written with the usual character set of a country
Place names can be written with the exhaustive character set of a country
Places have only one official address
Countries have capitals
Buildings do not move
Street addresses contain street names
Language codes will match the country code of the country they are associated with

BTW...

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/79836/only-5-natural-features-us-possessive-apostrophes-their-names

But of all the decisions the Board has taken over the years, perhaps the strangest or the most controversial is its on-going war against possessive apostrophes.

Only 5 places in the USA are allowed a possessive apostrophe. Martha's Vineyard, full of wealthy people, is one.

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Falsehoods programmers believe about geography

Computer science is a unique branch of engineering in the sense that programming by itself is not helping much. To actually write useful programs, one needs to understand what the programs are abou…

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YA

Yibin I (Bathers), Sichuan Province, 2007

Yibin I (Bathers), Sichuan Province, 2007

Pudong I, Shanghai, 2007

Shanghai I, 2006

Nanjing V, Jiangsu Province, 2007

Nadav KanderYangtze, The Long River

2006–2007

And as I stood again and again looking at the water flowing past, I would wonder if the water that I was watching was water I had seen on previous trips having flowed to the ocean, evaporated, become a cloud and fallen as rain. All things cyclical. Nothing lost.

The Yangtze River, the main artery of this body of work and of China, flows over 6,500 kilometres (4,100 miles) from the country’s most westerly point in Qinghai Province through both the most sparsely and densely populated regions, to Shanghai in the east. With the river as a metaphor for constant change, I photographed the landscape and people along its banks from mouth to source. I worked intuitively, trying not to be influenced by what I already knew about China. I wanted to respond to what I found and felt. Although unconscious, it seems no coincidence that I travelled up river, against the current.

More people live along the Yangtze’s banks than in the whole of the United States: that is one in every eighteen people on the planet. It is the single largest pollutant to the Pacific Ocean. This extraordinary and vast river is embedded in the consciousness of the Chinese. It is much more than a waterway. It contains their history and their folklore. It runs in the blood of the people. This river caught my imagination and carried me on my journey.
My own feelings of rootlessness as an Israeli-born South African living in England evoked a strong response as I witnessed the vast scale of change under way in China. The west, and often the worst of it, is mirrored in China’s development and in that I saw a reflection of all mankind. The mistakes we have all made are being repeated. I realised that, for me, this project was about us all, about our interrelatedness, and not just about China.

A formalness and unease began to permeate my pictures after several trips to different parts of the river. I was responding to this country that feels both at the beginning of a new era and at odds with itself. I felt like a complete outsider and explained this pictorially by ‘stepping back’ – by showing humans as small in their surroundings. Common man has little say in China’s progression and this smallness of the individual is alluded to in the work. I found resonances in John Martin’s and Casper David Friedrich’s paintings, where humans are dwarfed against the might of nature and God, and J. M. W. Turner’s paintings, where tiny figures are lost in the seething violence of nature suggesting the ultimate defeat of all endeavour, the fallacy of hope. I felt the smallness of man pitted against huge ideas, the insignificance of man compared to the state.

Although it was never my intention to make documentary pictures, the sociological context of this project is ever present and unavoidable. The displacement of 1.7 million people in a 600-kilometre (380-mile) stretch of the river and the effect on humans when a country moves towards the future at unprecedented speed are themes that inevitably figure within the work.
China is a nation that appears to be severing its roots by destroying its past. Demolition and construction were everywhere on such a scale that I was unsure if what I was seeing was being built or destroyed, destroyed or built.
I felt strong parallels with the twentieth-century immigrants, who poured off the boats onto American soil for a new beginning without roots. And yet, paradoxically, the Chinese have traditionally had a deep identification with their native soil and an attachment to place. How can one be so rooted to the land and yet so ruthlessly redevelop or reinvent it?

China’s progress is rapid and profound. These are photographs that can never be taken again.

Nadav Kander's homepage.

#NadavKander #Yangtze #China #photography #atlas #places #atlasofplaces

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