Wikitravel Press launches Paris guide

First Wikitravel Press Guide To Use OpenStreetMap Content

Singapore, April 10, 2008 Wikitravel Press (www.wikitravelpress.com) today announced the publication of the new title Wikitravel Paris. Continuing Wikitravel's traditional of technical innovation, the Paris guide is the first guidebook to use maps from OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap.org), an open content editable map of the world.

Wikitravel (www.wikitravel.org), the Webby Award-winning online travel guide, uses the wiki-based collaborative editing technology made popular by Wikipedia. Wikitravel guides are built on the principle that travelers often get their best information from other travelers. The website offers over 40,000 travel guides in nineteen languages, with over 10,000 editorial contributions per week. Wikitravel won the Best Travel Website category in the 2007 Webby Awards.

Wikitravel Press builds upon this extraordinary community participation to create continually updated, reliable guidebooks. Carefully selected local editors polish and fact-check before publishing them through the one-click Yucca engine, with new editions of all guides released every month. Wikitravel Press books are sold online and available for shipping to over 200 countries. The books will use the same Creative Commons license as Wikitravel Web pages, so they can be copied and reused freely.

"The seamless merging OpenStreetMap data with Wikitravel travel guides showcases the power of Creative Commons open content licensing and Web 2.0," said Jani Patokallio, managing editor. "No longer will travelers be limited to hopelessly outdated editions mouldering on dusty bookshop shelves: with Wikitravel Press, what you see on your screen is what you get in your book."

CONTACT: Jani Patokallio, +65-91859331, jani(at)wikitravelpress.com