Not too long ago I read that the Pinmapple team were going to shut down Pinmapple. Shutting down their service meant that travel bloggers, no, everyone's map of travel destinations visited would vanish. I was devastated. I am not a pure travel blogger but due to having visited many beautiful places I blogged about a lot of them. And with Pinmapple I put a pin on the map along with a link to the blog post. I loved it. And now it was going to go away.
Apparently, more than just a few people were upset about this. There was an outcry all over Hive, everyone was sad.
In comes @ Detlev who most of you will know from his BeerSaturday and he rescued the service. He and a team of partly old, partly new members will continue the formerly known Pinmapple service for the Hive ecosystem as
@WorldMapPin
Big woohoo! The team is still in the process of setting everything up nice and pretty, like moving everything over to the new server so that none of the data gets lost and just very recently they also renamed the existing community to WorldMapPin as well. You can find and join it here.
Adding the code to your travel related posts will add a pin on the world map which then might look something like this, mind you this is only showing posts of the past month. You may filter the map by tags, time and user.
And this is the map of my own travel posts that I pinned to the map. You can get to it through your personal link = worldmappin.com/@username e.g. https://worldmappin.com/@oceanbee. There don't seem to be that many but some of them are doubled. And it just means I need to pull together some more travel posts on Hive.
I highly recommend you to pin your travel related posts on the map. It gives a nice visual, especially when you zoom in. Imagine you want to plan a trip to a specific place, then you can check out if a Hive travel blogger had been there and written about it.
WorldMapPin is a fun and useful tool and I am super glad that it exists. Time to get pinning again.
Till next time!
Have a great rest of your day!
Cheers,
(Ocean)Bee
