Platial
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| Type of business | Private |
|---|---|
Type of site | Social Computing |
| Available in | English |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Founder(s) | Di-Ann Eisnor, Jake Olsen, Jason Wilson |
| Key people | Di-Ann Eisnor, cofounder and CEO Jake Olsen, cofounder and CTO Jason Wilson, cofounder and VP of Product |
| Industry | Software |
| Products | Mapmaker, Mapkit, Slider |
| Revenue | Contextual Advertising |
| URL | www.platial.com |
| Registration | Optional |
| Launched | 2004 |
| Current status | Dead |
Platial was a collaborative, user generated, cartographic website. It was founded in 2004 by Di-Ann Eisnor, Jake Olsen, and Jason Wilson. Platial, Inc. was headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
Platial was used by hundreds of thousands of people[1] globally to share and associate relevant content with geographic places of interest. Platial claims 25% of the web's map widgets,[2] used on over 10,000 sites.[3]
On October 18, 2007, Platial acquired Frappr!, another social mapping website, increasing its total user-generated locations to more than 100 million.[2]
On February 27, 2010 Platial announced[4] that the service would be closing down within a few days.
In the Geographic Information Science literature, the concept of 'platial' refers to place-based studies in parallel with the use of 'spatial' for space-based (coordinate-system oriented) studies.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "About - Platial.com". Platial, Inc. Archived from the original on 2007-10-26. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
- ^ a b Michael Arrington (2007-10-18). "Social Mapping: Game Not Over Yet". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
- ^ Aliza Earnshaw (2007-03-16). "Platial map quest". Portland Business Journal. Bizjournals. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
- ^ "Geographic Euthanasia: The End of Platial As We Know It (Platial News and Neogeography)". typepad.com.
- ^ Gao, S.; Janowicz, K.; McKenzie, G.; & Li, L. (2013). Proceedings of the First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Models of Place - COMP '13. pp. 42–49. doi:10.1145/2534848.2534856. ISBN 9781450325356. S2CID 10586099.
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- Gao, S.; Janowicz, K.; McKenzie, G.; & Li, L. (2013). Proceedings of the First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Models of Place - COMP '13. pp. 42–49. doi:10.1145/2534848.2534856. ISBN 9781450325356. S2CID 10586099.
{{cite book}}:|work=ignored (help) - Goodchild, Michael (2015). "Space, place and health". Annals of GIS. 21 (2): 97–100. doi:10.1080/19475683.2015.1007895.
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