We’ve been crawling the web for new places, hotels, activities, and attractions for while now, but until today they haven’t been available on openplaces.org. The hard part is merging duplicates: knowing when two or more similar listings (for a hotel, for instance) refer to the same place. Today we finally succeeded at ironing out the last known bugs in our system and have added more than 350,000 new places to the site. Over the next few months, we’ll be adding tons more.
We’re also working on gathering more useful content about each place: reviews, articles, blog posts and links. Stay tuned.
