Online Community for local area

ByLaurel Papworth

Anyone wanna help me build an online community for Potts Point? WikiMapia is the project – finally a reason for wanting popup ads! You find it amazing that everyday people would donate time and energy to mapping maps with useful information. I find it amazing that anyone found all-day parking that close to Sydney Harbour…

Anyone wanna help me build an online community for Potts Point?

WikiMapia is the project – finally a reason for wanting popup ads!


You find it amazing that everyday people would donate time and energy to mapping maps with useful information. I find it amazing that anyone found all-day parking that close to Sydney Harbour and that they would tell anyone!

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2 Comments

  1. Do you have any examples of local social networks like the one you are thinking of? I am trying to find examples to help set one up where I live in California.

  2. Have a look at ‘backyard’ or ‘backfence’ – I think they used to white label a local area community online. Not sure if they are still around now. 🙁 Backfence I think it was…

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