Technical Feasibility of Building Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Re:Technical Feasibility of Building Hitchhiker's Guide to t... by DennisP on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @10:43AM (#7508540)

A while back I had some thoughts about a user-generated travel guide, in the spirit of Hitchhikers, built like a wiki or the old IMDB. Has anyone heard of a project like that?

Maybe the problem is that it'd fill up with so much spam from local businesses that it'd be useless. Maybe a good reputation and rating system could make it work, if there were enough participation from neutral parties.

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Re:Technical Feasibility of Building Hitchhiker's Guide to t... by huskyr on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @11:25AM (#7508944)

Well, there's Wikivoyage:

http://www.wikivoyage.org/

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Re:Technical Feasibility of Building Hitchhiker's Guide to t... by maxerickson on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @10:48AM (#7508582)

A large portion of the information is relatively objective (knowing where the hotels are and their quoted room rates is a big step up from 0, even if it doesn't reveal the bad places).

Here's a guide I saw on /r/openstreetmap:

http://use-it.cz/support?lang=en

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Re:Technical Feasibility of Building Hitchhiker's Guide to t... by Crito on Tuesday April 01, 2014 @02:58PM (#7510804)

> "Maybe the problem is that it'd fill up with so much spam from local businesses that it'd be useless."

I think that the problem of spam, in this case, is a problem of search technology, presentation, and identity.

Ideally small business owners should be able to write entire tomes about their shops without degrading user experience. That spam would be available to those who want to read it, and not presented to those who do not. Deletion or culling of spam would therefore be unnecessary.

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