Hi folks. I just joined the list because I've long held a dream of
building a specific site.
What I'm talking about is a geek/engineer tourism site. I'm one of
those sad types who, when touring around Vietnam, stops and gawks at big
(
http://www.rumble.net/travel/photos/vietnam/nw/thumb/nwdamfish-9-0.html)
and small
(
http://www.rumble.net/travel/photos/vietnam/nw/thumb/nwhydro3-9-0.html)
engineering marvels.
So I'd like to have a site that collects information about this kind of
thing. Power stations, significant dams, historic sewage system
features, giant tunnels, spy stations, bomb shelters, architectural
marvels and follies, engineering accidents, atomic bomb test sites etc
etc. The site would include photos, historical information, transport
information, opening hours and prices, details of preferred viewing
sites and GPS coordinates.
So it occurred to me that Openguides has already achieved much of this
in a suitably open and geek-ready format. However, it doesn't fit your
ontology. Your site gives guides for a particular city or region,
whereas this idea would work best as an integrated, global site. That
way you could look at a meta-topic on an area of interest (say, atomic
test sites).
I can see this cross-guide linking is probably a problem you've already
encountered (compare the tube networks of London and New York) and
discussed, so I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
So is this something Openguides would be interested in pursuing? Of
course, I'm offering to maintain the content.
--
Rev Simon Rumble <simon(a)rumble.net>
www.rumble.net
"Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory
or a truck passing by a music school?"
- John Cage