Worldmappin Proposal - The re-birth of Pinmapple

[detlev]

Vote for this proposal (#313) Peakd.com / Ecency /

Hive.blog / https://wallet.hive.blog/proposals/313

/ HiveSigner

TLDR;

• The active Pinmapple proposal will STOP in mid-June 2024.
• This new proposal makes sure that this Hive project stays alive under the new name @worldmappin
• This new proposal aims to continue providing the services adding location to your post and keeping the map with all its pins alive
• Step by step we want to develop this project into more functions for communities.
• You can support it here.

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What is Worldmappin?

https://Worldmappin.com is a map where any blogger on Hive can pin his posts to the blockchain. Worldmappin is currently used by almost all travel bloggers on Hive with a huge community of 13500 Hivians at https://peakd.com/c/hive-163772/created.

It is used in two ways.
A. The bloggers love that they have their world map with their pins on it. Each Hivian has his unique world map like https://worldmappin.com/@detlev where he can pin all his travels and his memories

B. All Travelers use it to find information and inspiration for their next trips and use it as a travel guide.

Example of a private Hive user world map

^{Thanks to @detlev for sharing his travel memories via https://worldmappin.com/@detlev}

Worldmappin is the re-birth of Pinmapple which stopped by the former management by end of May 2024. We agreed with the former management to take over the project with a mainly new and partly old team.

Read more at https://peakd.com/travel/@pinmapple/worldmappin-will-carry-on-pinmapples-legacy

We will develop the project further, and add new functions for communities, topics, and other people on Hive.

We will maintain the community with 13500 Hivians and the Discord community with 1250 people and we will use a dedicated team for a clear communication.

The big goal is to take this project to the next level.

• by attracting people to Hive by coming over the map
• make it even more community-friendly to retain the existing users
• make the project more sustainable over time.
• Have it the project open source

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The plan

Phase 1: Build new infrastructure, transfer data & rebuild curation team

• All the new infrastructure for the map, pinning service, and curation tool have to be created.
  The servers, domains and subdomains, and other licenses for the server need to be bought and organized. The existing code must be checked, partly updated, and transferred to new servers and backup machines. All this is nearly done as the service is working.

• All this infrastructure needs to be tested and managed and some security management by our operation team and the monitoring tools need to be activated and tested. We plan to have a standby system and a staging system for all future developments.

• We will restart with the curation for the community. That means we will recruit new curation team members, and teach them how to use the curation tool and manage the curation trail.
  Therefore we will grow the @worldmappin account with the help of the community with some more delegation to grow the voting power for quality posts.

Phase 2: Maintain the quality of the service

• We will ensure the infrastructure works fine and the curation team will grow to a group of people who ensure the quality stays.

• The community on Hive and Discord will be managed more actively and for example get some more activities, features, structure, and continuous information.

• Together with the community and the team of developers, we will create a list of doable new „feature and function“ for the next version of Worldmappin. We like to offer functionality to integrate maps for communities or other apps and we even think into a direction of an own mobile app.

Phase 3: Develop the project

• at Hive Meetup Aachen and Hivefest in Split, @detlev and @lizanomadsoul will talk about the status, and development ideas and discuss them with the community. So that step by step we can develop the project further and achieve our big goal and bring the @worldmappin service to a new level.

• In this phase the clear plan of our „feature and function“ list will be developed and tested to a new level of „pinning“

• The development team will start to build new features, test it and we will announce this by the worldmappin account to the hive community

• Offer the worldmappin project on GitHub as Open Source project

• Talk outside the existing Hive community about the project to connect more people to Hive

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A bit of history of the project and background to @detlev and @lizanomadsoul

Back in August 2017, the first version of Pinmapple (Steemitworldmap) started. @detlev was one of the first 10 users pin a post to the map. Since then, the map had 114,030 pins from 5,459 Hive users added to the database. 32,971 of them are curated as good or best by the Pinmapple curation team, which released a Travel Digest with the best of the day almost every day. The Hive Community counts 13709 subscribers. It is under the top 10 communities in terms of size and activity.

@detlev has not only been one of the first, but also one of the most loyal and active users of the map in the past 7 years. He is mostly known as "The beer guy" as he started and runs #beersaturday and he is also involved in many other projects and topics on HIVE. Over the years he has been very engaging at several communities, was moderator and key note speaker at Hivefest and loved to support new ideas, new users and communities.

@lizanomadsoul is also a member of Hive since 2017. She almost started at the same time as @detlev. Back then she was travelling around the world and therefore was pinning her posts to the map a lot. She and martibis met in Krakow and traveled together a few times. When steemitworldmap migrated from Steem to #Hive and pinmapple was born, she was already was part of the projects team. She was also involved in a few other projects on the chain, supported new users, helped Hivebuzz to migrate and grow, organized meetups and After Fest Travels, attended many Hivefests and is also well-connected in the community.

When we heard the project would be stopped, our decision took only a second and we started to do everything needed to ensure it would survive. We will also do our best to get closer to our big goal of achieving the next level step by step.

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The new Team

The project starts with a fresh team of Hivians.
Until today we have to follow people with the project

• Curation @lizanomadsoul (lead) @ybanezkim26 and soon some more...
• Community @lizanomadsoul @godfish and others
• Communication / Moderation @louis88 @godfish @rivalzzz and others
• Graphic Design @louis88 &...who ever want to help
• Development @masterswatch (and brothers) & @louis88 (as bug-hunter) & ??
• Operation A skilled Team of DevOps and IT-experts around @detlev
• Management @detlev

Together we will do our best to follow the plan and keep you updated.

Thanks for supporting us!

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Last but not least: Thanks to the former team 👏 🙏

Special thanks to @martibis who created the project way back in 2017 and was running it until May 2024. A big thanks as well to @livinguktaiwan and the rest of the team such as @choogirl and @itchyfeetdonica , for all the great work with the project over the years making this community grow while maintaining this quality! Thanks for your support and trust, handing over the legacy, so we can go on with this project.

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Request for Funding

This proposal request covers current and future infrastructure and human resources costs so that @Worldmappin can continue to run.

The operational budget is created by the needs we see today and the estimated costs for all the upcoming developments with several developers. We will use a bit of the budget as well to market the project and #Hive at many other places to gain more users for Hive.

We like to start as small as possible to be able to cover costs.
Therefore we ask 85 HBD per day.

All this is based on the following elements:

1. Infrastructure and services

• Database server for all the pins
• Frontend Website service
• Security management and monitoring tools
• Backup services
• All cost for licenses, domains & others

2. Development / Marketing

• Make Worldmappin a helper for communities on Hive
• Update the Website frontend
• Plan a mobile version of frontend to create pins
• Update the Curation tool (internal use for our curators)
• Add more functions to use Worldmappin with more Hive communities
• Spread the word about this safe place for your travel memories and Hive

3. WebOps / DevOps

• Worldmappin.com website maintenance and update
• Documentation maintenance
• Infrastructure maintenance and updates
• Code maintenance
• Support to users and community

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Let's have more Pins of the world with Worldmappin!

Support This Proposal:
Vote for this proposal (#313) on Peakd.com
Vote for this proposal (#313) on Ecency
Vote for this Proposal (#313) on

Hive.blog / https://wallet.hive.blog/proposals/313

Vote for this Proposal (#313) using HiveSigner

Thank you for your support!

Comments

[gtg]

I was looking forward to seeing the code for Pinmapple, but I never found a link to the repository. What makes Worldmapping different from Pinmapple in terms of sustainability to avoid ending the same way? DHF is not a viable long term solution which was already proven.

[detlev]

Hi Gandalf, after reading your comment again I like to come up with some more feedback.

1. We wanted to safe the project - Done ✅
2. We analyze the code and the UI/UX
3. We want to optimize the project
4. Adding more functionality
5. Grow it and find ways to monetize
6. Keep it open source

Beneath all this, we re-start the curation for all the users with a fresh team.

More to come whenever we finished 2 and 3

And we like to listen to your and the
Community advice/ feedback and ideas.

[godfish]

That's a brillint question, thank you. I have a couple of ideas regarding the long-term sustainability and outside-Hive funding. We'll brainstorm on that with @detlev and the others, likely in two weeks onthe meet-up in Aachen.

[detlev]

Yeah - at the #HiveMeetupAachen 13 we even have @lizanomadsoul talking about the project on stage.

[gtg]

Tempting, but that's quite far and I've just used all the "spare" time for a road trip this month.

[detlev]

Hi @gtg, you are always welcome for a direct chat / call with me

[detlev]

Hey @gtg, there is the OpenSource Code available for the front end and others created by Martibis. He added this to Github.
We took the code and used it for Worldmappin. We had as well some talks and got a bit of help to quickly have it running.

We will rewrite a lot, add more features and we will make it as well open source.

[qwerrie]

Voted! THX for all the efforts involved.

[detlev]

Yeah, it as a lot of communication work @qwerrie

[gwyddpel]

Mi apka. nie działa.

[gtg]

Zgłoś twórcom, bo ja nawet nie wiem o co chodzi.

[wanderingmoon]

I did not realize there had been a proposal for pinmapple. I will definitely support this.

[axobtc]

Proposal voted 313

[detlev]

Thx a lot

[museodelcaos]

Worldmap proposal voted

[lightcaptured]

I like the change and the new plans for shinier app!
Proposal approved.
By the way, here is a small issue I just saw.

The auto-comment that the @worldmappin account puts once the post link is registered, if I click on the link to the web site, it gives that error:

DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN

I tested this on Brave and Chrome, all the same. Probably should tag the devs, cheers :) @masterswatch @louis88

Keep up the good work, I guess I should be back to posting my travel photo stories ;)

I guess that is caused by the prefix "www."?

[detlev]

@lightcaptured thanks, we will have a look into this

[lightcaptured]

It seems you've got a pretty nice team there, I've never seen something resolved so quicky on HIVE, lol :)
Cheers!

[detlev]

Hey @lightcaptured, nothing is better as working with Pro's

[worldmappin]

Hey @lightcaptured

• Bot fixed 👍
• DNS fixed wth www. 👍

please try again

[lightcaptured]

All good now, I just checked the newest post in the community.
I see it was the prefix and awesome prompt resolution of that small issue ;)

[currentxchange]

Hey there Detlev + Team,

Stoked for more maps.

I believe your project will benefit Hive users by providing a usable UI for sharing travel experiences.

You got my vote.

I think the display should be updated to show the NEWEST blogs by default, currently it shows the oldest, which doesn't make much sense from a curation standpoint.

We are working on a slightly similar (we're a map!) proposal focusing on launching daily top-charts for music, aiming to leverage Hive's potential to attract and retain users through recognition and engagement.

Perhaps we can find some interesting way to work together.

Best of luck with Worldmappin! We're excited to see it flourish.

Warm regards,

• Douglas from cXc.world

P.S. Here's what we're looking to integrate to Hive, maybe we could do a top chart for travel blogs?

[detlev]

Hey Douglas @currentxchange let's have a chat on your plans.
Do you join HiveFest??

[currentxchange]

Hey @devlet glad to talk.

I won't be at HiveFest, but would love to be there.

I look forward to growing alongside you as The Maps of Hive

We're launching top charts (going to post daily here on Hive), curating NFTs (from WAX blockchain) and music, to start

We will detail more in our upcoming proposal. 💪

Good luck with everything, let's keep talking soon

[ammonite]

My favourite Dapp on Hive and I am happy to support its continual development. Keep up the great work.

[detlev]

We will do our best and we are open for any ideas dear @ammonite

[sodom-lv]

Voted immediately when I saw this post.
I think this is the most cost-effective proposal

[detlev]

Thanks @sodom-lv

[katerinaramm]

Reposting for visibility and definitely support this 🙏

If you need help in the team, I will be very excited to join!

[detlev]

Dear @katerinaramm, OMG we love to hear this. I let @lizanomadsoul know and feel free to chat with me via Discord at the Worldmappin channel

[lizanomadsoul]

🐝👍

[frgnholding]

Worldmappin Proposal - The re-birth of Pinmapple #313 supported

[detlev]

great - thx

[fixyetbroken]

Thank you for reviving it. I'll gonna try it soon.😊

[grindle]

voted, supported and reblogged

[detlev]

Love it - A !BEER for @grindle

[grindle]

👍

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[hirohurl]

Voted, and delegated 200 HP. Nice to see all the old pins have been preserved. :)

!BBH
!ALIVE

[detlev]

Many thanks 🙏

[jane1289]

Can't wait to pin my first travel blog at Worldmappin 😁

[detlev]

You can do it today. We are already LIVE @jane1289

[jelenaa]

Done!🤗 I wish us a lot of travel, interesting blogs and long life to the community! 😊

[detlev]

Actually I wrote the final sentences while traveling in Germany.

[jerrytsuseer]

↑Upvoted↑and←Reblogged→

[detlev]

@jerrytsuseer whooot

[godfish]

Hope you also supported the proposal :)

[jerrytsuseer]

Of course I did, or I wouldn't have upvoted and reblogged.
That being said, I am sick to death of both Peakd and ecency constantly pushing me to support this proposal or that proposal. Sick of it

[godfish]

Well, it's money at the end of the day :)

Thanks!

[jerrytsuseer]

Sorry, I don't see how. I LOVED Pinmapple, so if this new thing is at least as useful I will be happy.

That being said, I cannot see how in all the years I used pinmapple and it's predecessor in steemit, ever made me a dime more that I would have made anyway

[jesuslnrs]

Pinmaple is simple, but it worked better on my pc, so when I was traveling it was easier for me not to mark the map, but now I will be very attentive to this new phase that aims to be more visual for the user. Of course I support the proposal, I like it because the idea is to save and improve what had already been achieved.

[detlev]

Hey @jesuslnrs many thanks.

[nanixxx]

Best wishes for this proposal. Supported! 😉

[detlev]

thanks a lot @nanixxx

[nanixxx]

🙂👍 (my pleasure)

[ninaeatshere]

I’m so glad to read about this proposal. I was heartbroken when we found out about pineapple closing, so now it’s really nice to see things kept safe by our own community. Best of lucks, you guys got my support and commitment of any help is needed!

[detlev]

And we might get a lot nice @ninaeatshere post ....

[papilloncharity]

Done, and all strength to the growth.

[detlev]

Hey @papilloncharity many thanks

[papilloncharity]

Hi @detlev only a pleasure to support.
!BEER

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[phortun]

Voted. Good luck guys!

@tipu curate 3

[tipu]

Upvoted 👌 (Mana: 6/66) Liquid rewards.

[pinkchic]

Yey! This is so exciting. I am so delighted about the rebirth of pinmapple through Worldmappin I already followed back then. I supported the proposal and more reblogs for visibility. Amazing!

[detlev]

Love to hear thid

[tanzil2024]

Voted!
Thanks for keeping the Pinmapple legacy and we hope Worldmappin will bring it to the next level.

[detlev]

welcome. @tanzil2024

[x-rain]

Glad to know there is an intention to bring the project to a new level! Voted. 🙂

[detlev]

@x-rain many thanks

[lizelle]

Thank you so much for Worldmappin, many of us were devastated when we read about pinmapple closing down, but over the moon to hear that you took steps to stop it from a sudden death. Thank you!

[detlev]

@lizelle welcome

[castri-ja]

Done😉😉

[detlev]

Thanks a lot

[masterswatch]

Exciting times 😎

[detlev]

Looking forward to work with you dear @masterswatch and family.

[speedtuning]

!PIZZA

[florecitamejias]

[avdesing]

Voted! It is a pleasure to be able to collaborate in some way with this rebirth of Pinmapple in Worldmappin, thank you very much for the work you are doing for everyone! Best regards!❤️

[detlev]

Many thanks for your support @avdesing

[avdesing]

Thank you for the great work!

[lisbethseijas]

Ready my support for the team

[detlev]

Love it!

[sofathana]

Voted!
Thank you for keeping this community alive, wishing much success to the project! :)

[palomap3]

It’s a pleasure to support the proposal, keep mapping!! 😁❤️🤗

[jakiro12]

this is awesome, i have a question: it will be an open source? because if this works i would like test it in my side projects

[detlev]

It will be open source but we as well open it for other communities to be able to map places on the community map.

[wittyzell]

Thank you so much for continuing the legacy! Will definitely support and can't wait for the new features!

[detlev]

Many thanks for your support @wittyzell

[jordy0827]

What a joy to know that the project continues. I join in voting for the proposal and hope that the community continues to grow!

[detlev]

Thanks a lot @jordy0827

[tydynrain]

I added my support! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

[detlev]

Thanks

[tydynrain]

Most definitely, you're very welcome! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

[gabrielatravels]

Voted! Happy to see this happening and that some of Pinmmaple's members are going to be part of this beautiful team as well!

[detlev]

Yes, yes & YES

We have to keep it alive and kicking @gabrielatravels

[gabrielatravels]

Will do my best to contribute and get involved as much as I can!

[detlev]

❤️ @gabrielatravels

[silviared945]

Thank you guys for the work you do and for giving us the opportunity to share our posts here😍

[detlev]

@silviared945 😀

[seckorama]

Voted! 👍 I'm expecting a !BEER layer in the next update 😜

[detlev]

@seckorama LOL - you can read my mind??

[seckorama]

But didn't you know I could read minds 😜?
There could be many layers... not only !BEER.
I think you could first create a kind of AD (Active Directory of Hive) with people, communities, etc... btw: I have still negotiation with my wife to came in Aachen ...

[detlev]

Hey @seckorama love to have you and your wife aka boss here in Aachen for the meetup. See the latest HiveMeetupAachen post for some extra motivation

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[rye.man]

Hi Worldmappin Team, I am a Technical Writer with few years of experience writing both developer documentation and the user-facing one. If you'll need some help with creating some documents that'll help maintain the repository, I can help :)

[detlev]

Whooot @rye.man, let's have a chat. Are you going to HiveFest?

[rye.man]

Unfortunately not, I'm still a newbie, maybe in upcoming years :) But I'm happy to catch up on discord or anywhere else

[detlev]

Let’s connect via our discord community and figure out where you skills can help

[karlex77]

When I read these types of publications and the great projects that are in Hive I feel proud to be part of this great family. Let's keep growing.

[detlev]

thanks @karlex77

Love to see your next pins

[duvinca]

Thanks for all!!! Great team! 😊🙌

[amico]

Subscribed! 🥰🤟😎

[katiefreespirit]

Done 😊 Good luck!

[uwelang]

Nice move, my not anymore existing stake will not help to support the proposal even I regret to mainly shifted all my Steem/Hive assets towards SPL (value down from 900k USD to now 40k max lol) I thought of switching back but now to Hive to also annoy so called police officers on Hive, but now also this going to zero. Maybe the choice of brand was shit, think I mentioned this in my marketing proposal to the relevant guys @guiltyparties

What again is the use case of that world mapping exactly? @detlev @lizanomadsoul

[detlev]

Hey @uwelang

Map any place on earth to hive to combine this place with a post.

This generates your own worldmap with all your memories.

On the other side anyone, who like to travel, can use all the information to learn.

We have a huge and and active community with worldmappin

[hindavi]

Now I can start my journey on #worldmappin. Wishing you all the best.
A small delegation and proposal vote has been given. looking forward :)

[mynewlife]

Can we unsupport Martibis proposal ?

[detlev]

yes - but have a read at it

he changed it to a lower amount and just to the tools he is offering