Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to MapSwipe, by Ivan Gayton, Pim de Witte, Sadok Rabadan, Alison Malouf, and Pete Masters
Map the world's most vulnerable people in your spare time
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. MapSwipe, by Ivan Gayton, Pim de Witte, Sadok Rabadan, Alison Malouf, and Pete Masters launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Putting the World's Vulnerable People on the Map
2017 · missingmaps.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I love finding new books to read on here. I wanted to gather the most mentioned books and recreate the serendipity of physical browsing. I scraped 20k comments from HN threads related to reading, extracted the references and opinions using GPT-4o mini, and visualised their embeddings as a map. - OpenAI's embeddings were processed using UMAP and HDBSCAN. A direct 2D projection from the text embeddings didn't yield visually interesting results. Instead, HDBSCAN is first applied on a high-dimensional projection. Those clusters tend to correspond to different genres. The genre…
2024 · hnbooks.pieterma.es · its alternatives →
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See where people click so you can improve your page
2014 · bdow.com · its alternatives →
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AttackMap▲94A crowdsourced map of attacks happening now around the world
2016 · attackmap.info · its alternatives →
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Tasmap▲111Hi there, I just saw a cool city map project (https://github.com/originalankur/maptoposter) gaining some attention on Hacker News. I'm building a similar product so I want to share it with you. If you're interested in beautiful maps, maybe give Tasmap a try. It's not just a static, beautiful map; it's dynamic and interactive, and connected with articles. There are 20+ well designed themes, and if you're not good at design, you can even have AI design it for you. You can embed it in your site or install it as an app on your phone. You can create a beautiful and useful map.…
2020 · tasmap.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, jvaclavik here from OpenClimbing team! We are thrilled to release version 2.0 of our fully opensource/opendata climbing guide. Based on OpenStreetMap for map-data and Wikimedia Commons for images, we created a (hopefully) user-friendly app which completely uses these open databases, thus contributing data back to commons. We designed a simple and powerful notation for drawing climbing routes directly over the Wikimedia pictures: - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:wikimedia_commons:pa... Check out the release article for a ton of new features, or go…
2014 · openstreetmap.org · its alternatives →
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An easy route planner for salespeople
2017 · mapmycustomers.com · its alternatives →
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One of the best public transit apps. Now on your wrist
2015 · medium.com · its alternatives →
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Waaaaay!▲84The simplest navigation app for those who cannot read maps
2014 · waaaaay.com · its alternatives →
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ChoiceMap▲64An iPhone app that helps people make better decisions
2014 · choicemap.co · its alternatives →
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