Blog - MapMyGlobe

I just bought the domain name mapmyblog.com this morning. I have been thinking about building a Collaborative Mapping web app for some time now and I finally made up my mind last week and decided that it was time to go for it.

I won’t tell much about it today, I’ll just say that it will combine Google Maps and a wiki system, however in a way that will be totally different from what WikiMapia does, and that I’m feeling really enthusiastic about it.

Enough said about the app for today. What I also wanted to share with you today is my feedback on the domain registration / web hosting process. I have built several websites over the last couple of years, both in France and here in the U.S. It strikes me that although entry-level hosting here in the U.S. tends to be more expensive than in France, the configurations are a lot more powerful and it is so much easier and quicker to have them set up and running. While it used to take about a week to have a working host, database, DNS and subdomains a year ago in France, it took me only a few hours this morning to have everything up, so I don’t know what the causes are (given that I don’t know a lot about registration processes and DNS stuff) but it’s definitely worth spending a couple of extra bucks in order to save time to actually build a web application

Enough said for today. I am looking forward to being able to release a beta version and hope to do it some time around mid-September. I certainly hope you’ll like this project as much as I do.

Cheers,

Julien

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