MyGreatWorld is a free, alternative photo community that organizes photos by where they were taken, essentially creating a photographic map of the world, country-by-country, city-by-city. Residents and travelers alike upload their best pictures of a location to the site, and along with identifying each photo with a place on the map, you can add a date and classify pictures into categories, like art, nature, gastronomy, hotels etc. Optional written comments and descriptions can accompany each photo creating human generated content , and will be indexed for keyword searches. Visitors browse the site by map location, recently added photos, or top-rated photos, and can search by any combination of parameters including keyword, date, category, and location. There is also in internal private instant messaging system that will allow private members to communicate with each other.

This site in my opinion is far from perfect. There are way to many pages to filter through to get to where you need to go, it has a horrible home page, and it’s picture inventory is limited because they are still in infant stages.

This is a very interesting concept that I believe could become the “go to” place to access images of people at the same vacation destination that you and your family is planning. Another huge piece to this is the fact that not only can you look at images but you can read about what people say. This site can be extremely viral. Go help them out and upload your images of your vacation. The more content they have the faster it will grow.

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