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28Nov/092

Add points of interest to the Saudi map using Gowalla

I gave up on Google. After so many posts asking for Google to simply allow us to contribute to our own map, Saudi Arabia and UAE are still editable. The rest of the GCC: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman have been available for a while. Of course the only alternative is not even good for that.

So I highly recommend using Gowalla to add points of interests in the Saudi map. It's available as an iPhone app and you can read more about it at TechCrunch. A group of iPhone users in Saudi Arabia are already using Gowalla and we are slowly populating it with actual data!

I hope to see Gowalla's data being used in other databases, but right now it is the only acceptable method of adding points of interests.

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  • SwisH

    Nice post, never knew about gowalla

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  • http://www.rummble.com Veronica

    How about Rummble? http://www.rummble.com – It has loads of functionality not available on any other service and is available in any city! I think that it’s the easiest way to find people and places nearby, based on its unique way of personalising recommendations for places based on my own tastes.. I use it on my iPhone when I’m in an area I’ve never been before, and find it the most useful app out there! :-)

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