Platialthepeoplesatlas

So it turns out that there is a social networking site that revolves around maps. Now granted some of the features on Platial took a huge hit with Google's recent move to make maps collaborative, but it's still an interesting concept. Platial integrates well with some of the existing social networking sites and blogs (including Facebook and Blogger). Unfortunately there is not a method for uploading existing KML into the Platial interface and it really only seems to want to deal with points (as opposed to lines and polygons).


One cool thing about Platial is the ability to integrate the application with Facebook to map photos on your Facebook account. I understand that photo-mapping has long existed with Flickr, but Facebook makes it so easy to run through the photos on your friends accounts and steal them for your own album. The map application can easily be added to your Facebook mainpage. Perhaps not the most useful feature of all time, but it is gives you an even broader ability to show off all the cool places that you've been.

To go a step further, Platial will integrate with Facebook to the extent that you can map the location of all your friends on Facebook... this application has an even greater value if your trying to find a couch to crash on during your next trip.