Welcome To Wayki

Wayki is a visual, community driven guide to places you know and places you'd like to know.

Wayki is a visual, community driven guide to places you know and places you'd like to know.

Share Your Favorite Places

Post your favorite places on the map! Link to them from your home page or blog, your favorite forums, or anywhere else you'd like to show them.

Explore Places Nearby

Zoom in on any area and see favorite places that others have posted on the map!

February 22, 2007

Wayki has undergone its first major rewrite.

Wayki - A Visual, Community Driven Guide To Places

Our focus is to make Wayki a community driven guide to places around the world. So we've pared down the categories to Places (landmarks), Photos (scenic shots), and Messages (information).

Relevance Returns

Relevance is back! In conjunction with a new way of displaying icons on the map, locations posted on Wayki that are scored higher (for relevance) now appear when you zoom out further levels. Locations that have lower relevance will only appear when you zoom in closer.

This effectively reduces clutter on the map, and at the same time displays the most relevant information first.

See What's New On The Map

Click on the Wayki menu to see a listing of the newest items posted.

More...

Many changes have been made to how the map works, making it easier to navigate and faster at loading.

Report Bugs

Because there's so much new stuff, there's bound to be bugs. Please post any bugs (or usability issues) in the Wayki forums!

February 8, 2007

A couple of bug fixes made (thanks for reporting the photo uploading bug!), as well as a bug that stopped the windowing system from working yesterday. Sorry about that...

January 26, 2007

You can now link directly to items posted on Wayki (to put in your own blog, forum, or to send a link to an item via email). Just click on the "link" tab when you pull up information on an item.

January 12, 2007

Icons! Each type of post on Wayki now has its own icon based on the type of post it is, so you can see what type of items are available without having to click on them. In addition, clicking on a photo now brings up the photos tab instead of showing the detail (text) of the photos.

Please send feedback about the icons in our forums. Are they readable on the map?

January 8, 2007

Happy New Year! Logging in and creating accounts should now be working again... and the number of CSS and Javascript files that are loaded have been cut down a little bit to make loading Wayki faster.

December 19, Evening (Pacific Time)

Valid Xhtml! Wayki now validates with the W3C's Xhtml validator. Not that it's going to last very long, because there's a number of new things in the pipeline, but for now it's good to have it.

December 19

More interface tweaks have been made to make Wayki a little friendlier to lower resolutions, and to make posting to Wayki a little more straightforward and open.

Relevance scoring is temporarily offline. We're going to redo how items are displayed on the map and relevance plays an important part in this, so once that's done then our relevance scoring will be back again.

December 15

More interface tweaks - we've scaled down some of the images and graphics so more map can fit on the screen. This is especially important for screens that have lower resolutions.

If you've visited Wayki before, we recommend hitting refresh so that you get the newest versions of the Javascript files that we're using. Note that this is something that we plan to have fixed soon.

December 14

Lots of interface changes have been made to simplify Wayki and to make it more viewable on lower resolution monitors. There was also a bug (now fixed) that wouldn't let you post more than once without reloading the page.

The name "Comments" has been changed to "Replies" because replies is shorter and works better with tabs. In addition the number of replies is now also visible in the tabs.

December 13

Comments are here! You can now add and view comments to items that appear on the map. Just click on the "comments" tab when you view an item.

Latitude

Longitude

Zoom

North East Corner

South West Corner

Login Help

Please note that your password is case sensitive.

Create Account

If you don't have an account, you can create one by clicking on the "Create Account" menu item.

Relevance On Wayki

Relevance is a rating system to set the geographic importance of items that appear on the map.

You can participate in rating items by creating a user account.

Map items with higher relevance scores represent items that Wayki users more geographically relevant, and appear at lower zoom levels. Scores range from 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest relevance score.

Choose A Location

Use the Post Marker to specify where on the map you'd like to post about. You can move the Post Marker by dragging it or by clicking on a location on the map.

Zoom In For Accuracy

The closer you zoom in the more accurate your location will be.

Title And Content

Once you've set the location, you should add a title and some content. The title should be the location name, or a brief summary of the location you're posting about. The content of your message can be anything that's relevant to the location.

Uploading Photos

You may also attach photos with your post. For example, if your posting your favorite restaurant, you could include photos of what that restaurant looks like.

Places And Landmarks

These are permanent locations that might include buildings, restaurants, historical sites, parks or other geographical features.

Scenic Photos

These are collections of photos (that you upload) that may not reference a specific geographic feature such as a place or a landmark, but provide visual information as to what a location looks like.

Notes And Messages

Leave a note or a message if you are posting information that does reference a specific place or a landmark. An example of a note might be "avoid parking in this area because the meters are broken" or "this is a great fishing spot".

Remember, you're posting something that other people are going to see when they browse this area, so make it interesting!

Enter a city, address, or ZIP/postal code

Location Not Found

Loading Account settings, please wait...

Setting Up Account Creation

Please wait while the Account creation form loads...