Open Travel Culture
Jani Patokallio
[email protected]
The Idea
Travelers best information source is other travelers.
-- Evan Prodromou,
founder of Wikitravel
Wikitravel.org
"Wikipedia meets Lonely Planet"
Launched in July 2003
Almost 50,000 articles in 20 languages
Over 20,000 in English version alone
10,000+ edits/week
Webby Award for Travel in 2007
CC Attribution-ShareAlike license
Printed guides and
Wikitravel Press
We turn Wikitravel the website into printed Wikitravel
guidebooks
Addresses an obvious need
Internet is good, but sometimes paper is better
Current guides are 3-10 years out of date
Sold online at Amazon.com
Ordinary bookstores are too slow for us!
Flow betweenwebsite andbook:
1) Edit guide2) Publish guide3) Deliver guide4) Read guide5)
Edit guide...
Editorial process
Hand-picked editors in charge of books
Intimately familiar with destination
Receive a royalty on sales
Realtime conversion from web to print
Automated typesetting with Yucca engine
Cross-references, page numbering, indexes, image formatting etc
etc
Print on demand
Revisions every month
Soon: Immediate prints of live data
Printed on demand at a press near you
Under 24 hours from order to print at Amazon
Sample order
Mon: Place your order
Wed: Your order ships
Fri: Your order arrives
(target for regular shipping in continental US,
no guarantees unless you order as expedited
and may take longer elsewhere)
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Future plans
Roll-your-own guides
Pick your places, we print your book
How fresh do you want it?
Absolutely uncensored,
latest patrolled version, or
human-edited
The Idea
map, search, filter and share your flights and travels with
friends or the entire world
In a nutshell
First open-source travel mapping application
Launched January 2009
"Web 2.0" interface
Map changes in realtime
Share your map with friends
On Facebook as well
CSV/KML import/export
Aviation data
Commercial airport databases cost >US$1000
The OpenFlights airport and airline DBs are free!
As of Jan 2009:
5391 airports
5871 airlines
Thank you!
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