in this example mary.neapolis is the precise address of a restaurant in Naples/Italy where you can open it within your favourite maps app, you can rename it or you can follow the user in case suggest similar places
here user sgtpepper pick a suffix and put it under group norway
under the group norway he also create spring and glow too
when you search sgtpepper you will reach all of his mapnames
and when you search group sgtpepper.norway you will see all the mapnames under the group norway
Feed is the option where you get content from other users you follow,
Podium is a collection of regional and global content but since the app recently launched it does not have much content,
ideally you should be getting a combination of global and regional content on the podium segregated by content type (art, food, life .. ) in the android version there is single Podium and also content should be interesting enough and should not contain personal images/selfies to make it up to Podium.
yes one of the main intention is to advise less obvious spots based on what you create, like or follow. if you are visiting London, Trip Advisor top 10 can be good enough but less obvious places that locals find interesting may be found at mapname
since such lists can grow too big, mapname will provide options to manage and share, suggest these lists too
imagine you create a label for a location in Google Maps but it works in Apple Maps too (as well as other Maps), label can be used as an address and collection of them shows a particular perspective of yours.. for example: abc.tapas shows tapas bars you visited in Barcelona, assume abc is your id..
similarity with Pinterest is, user bookmark/collect places with optionally emoji, image and description as they met interesting enough spots
1. User assigns name under the onboarded prefix instead of automatic creation, for example let say, your id is lazyasciiart then you may share your id as the names you bookmark publicly
2. You may use groups as you create mapnames, for example coffee as a group then you may say lazyasciiart.coffee then it will map to several locations
3. Your experience is socialised so that you may follow relevant content, overtime you build what you interested and where you interested
4. As you are creating content such as movie or documentary you may annotate it with the mapname prefix then you can point out all the relevant locations within the app without referring to it
for the next few features will focus on adding more organisation features such as boards, guides, todo lists where collection of mapnames presented and also once you create a mapname relevant apps will be available for navigation
you can also consider this as a nickname for your what3words instead of saying apple.art.love you may say lazyasciiart.1, Which one would you like to communicate is up to you as both available once you view a mapname
as a shorter answer you may think mapname as an anonymous social network for organising points of interest
From your comments and how high it is on your website, it seems "prefix.group(optional).suffix" is a very important feature. Building on your above comment, perhaps it would be a good idea to explain how it works and why it is so important on your website?
yes, thank you for the suggestion. How a mapname constructured can be explained better.
User gets a handle/prefix during the onboarding and this is all about the onboarding. After that whenever somewhere is mapnamed, mapname starts with a prefix. if a user wants to add it to a group, then mapname becomes prefix.group.suffix otherwise it is prefix.suffix
Example: Let say prefix that you take during the onboarding is drkiszonka then you would like to mapname your favourite restaurant x then the restaurants mapname becomes drkiszonka.x instead of describing where it is you only say my favourite restaurant is at drkiszonka.x When someone search drkiszonka.x then they can find the exact coordinate of drkiszonka.x and they can able to open it in Google Maps, Apple Maps, Yandex Maps, Bing Maps, Baidu Maps or with what3words, citymapper, waze
if you like to group your restaurant under a group id, while mapnaming it with x you choose a group. Let say group that you choose is Madrid then the restaurant mapname becomes drkiszonka.madrid.x if you like to refer all the mapnames under this group then you say drkiszonka.madrid
