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The purpose of Wikipedia’s and Mapsofworld’s existence is same – they both wish to be and are a reference source. The similarity ends here. Wikipedia is a reference resource for anything and everything under the sun and Mapsofworld is a reference resource for largely maps and to a certain extent, geography, education and travel. The differences begin here, while Wikipedia […]
Read moreStories may make websites. However, it takes real stories to make real websites. We always wanted Mapsofworld.com to be a real website, not just a job work of armchair journalists. Mapsofworld has hundreds of photographs, which have been specially commissioned. It also has hundreds of photographs taken by our team members while they were away on their private trips to […]
Read moreThe United States is a nation of immigrants and their food is anything but homogeneous on the whole. This particular aspect needed to be brought out and we didn’t want to be encyclopedic at all. We wanted to be yummy – as yummy as the American food to begin with. We wanted maps, we wanted text but we didn’t want […]
Read moreWe have all been reading about the Pyramids and Mapsofworld has been covering them since it got going with its travel section in 2005. The Pyramids are Pyramids, and that’s a big deal! However, so much has been written about them, now what could be different? Yes, that question got us going. We wanted our take on Pyramids to be […]
Read moreInformation is a tricky business to be in. At times, you need to do so much data crunching that sardines start feeling that their can is a Pacific Ocean, really – no kidding! Our requisition to the content team was to provide us with just one page of information on the US, which when read and absorbed, would make the […]
Read moreCan one project comprise tiny 100 projects and function with utmost precision and detail? Yes, Team Mapsofworld can do it, has done it. We began a project called FryDay Poll. Yes, FryDay, and not Friday. FryDay Poll was based on a concept that every Friday, Team Mapsofworld.com would churn out a new dish, in terms of a new topic, hitherto […]
Read moreAre you here with a solution or are you part of the problem? Every time we look at changing something in Mapsofworld or consider creating a new module, we ask ourselves this straight question. We are committed to being a team with the solution and we dare not become part of the problem, which our user is seeking an answer […]
Read moreEveryone who is involved with websites and portals business talks about Comscore and Google Analytics and that also in a hush-hush manner. At Mapsofworld, we decided that we would always ensure that independent tools capture as much of Mapsofworld.com as is possible in an open environment. We have always allowed our real data to travel to anyone who steps out […]
Read moreTerms and terminologies would come, some would at some point get classified as jargon and some as cliches, but what matters is raison d’etre, why you should exist digitally beyond your own website? That is the fundamental point. Your website is a digital asset and so is your FB, Twitter, Instagram and so many other pages. Your each presence beyond your […]
Read moreMost websites repurpose, repackage and reprocess travel content that is floating around and easy-to-do, making the journey easier. However, this is not what Mapsofworld subscribes to. We decided that Mapsofworld should try to do as much of “been there done that” content for travel section as possible. “Been there done that” for a world site is easier said than done. […]
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