Platial

Former website providing map services

Platial, Inc.

Type of business	Private
Type of site	Social Computing
Available in	English
Founded	2004
Headquarters	Portland, Oregon , U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Founder(s)	Di-Ann Eisnor, Jake Olsen, Jason Wilson
Key people	Di-Ann Eisnor, cofounder and CEO Jake Olsen, cofounder and CTO Jason Wilson, cofounder and VP of Product
Industry	Software
Products	Mapmaker, Mapkit, Slider
Revenue	Contextual Advertising
URL	www.platial.com
Registration	Optional
Launched	2004
Current status	Dead

Platial was a collaborative, user generated, cartographic website. It was founded in 2004 by Di-Ann Eisnor, Jake Olsen, and Jason Wilson. Platial, Inc. was headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Platial was used by hundreds of thousands of people^[1] globally to share and associate relevant content with geographic places of interest. Platial claims 25% of the web's map widgets,^[2] used on over 10,000 sites.^[3]

On October 18, 2007, Platial acquired Frappr!, another social mapping website, increasing its total user-generated locations to more than 100 million.^[2]

On February 27, 2010 Platial announced^[4] that the service would be closing down within a few days.

In the Geographic Information Science literature, the concept of 'platial' refers to place-based studies in parallel with the use of 'spatial' for space-based (coordinate-system oriented) studies.^[5]

References

^ "About - Platial.com". Platial, Inc. Archived from the original on 2007-10-26. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
^ ^a ^b Michael Arrington (2007-10-18). "Social Mapping: Game Not Over Yet". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
^ Aliza Earnshaw (2007-03-16). "Platial map quest". Portland Business Journal. Bizjournals. Retrieved 2008-02-18.
^ "Geographic Euthanasia: The End of Platial As We Know It (Platial News and Neogeography)". typepad.com.
^ Gao, S.; Janowicz, K.; McKenzie, G.; & Li, L. (2013). Proceedings of the First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Models of Place - COMP '13. pp. 42–49. doi:10.1145/2534848.2534856. ISBN 9781450325356. S2CID 10586099. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

Gao, S.; Janowicz, K.; McKenzie, G.; & Li, L. (2013). Proceedings of the First ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Computational Models of Place - COMP '13. pp. 42–49. doi:10.1145/2534848.2534856. ISBN 9781450325356. S2CID 10586099. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
Goodchild, Michael (2015). "Space, place and health". Annals of GIS. 21 (2): 97–100. doi:10.1080/19475683.2015.1007895.