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by bnd 1122 days ago
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

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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