About

Going away is great, but what you really need is someone who knows the area and the places to visit. to.uri.st is about finding those local attractions you never knew existed. Using to.uri.st you can search through over 17,000 attractions by geographical location, in over 14 countries.

You are also invited to help improve the data via a wiki-esk Web interface; you can add attractions, improve the available information and help inform others of great places you've been. The to.uri.st database is licensed under a Creative Commons license allowing everyone to have equal access to the data via the to.uri.st website or Web API.

We have a Web spider that we program with the details of different tourist information sites around the World. The spider is then let loose on the site, scraping the data and geocoding it onto the map. See our Coverage page to see where we're up to.

Some data is good, some not so good, some just a title and a geocoded point. That's where the community comes in, to.uri.st isn't just a map of spidered data, it's also a kind of Wiki allowing anyone to update the data as they see fit.

See the Spider page for more information on how our spider works and how you can get involved in programming it to spider new sites.

Hi, I'm Paul, nice to meet you. I made this. If you really care, read all about me on my homepage http://www.peej.co.uk/.

The wiki is the first place to find everything to.uri.st related, of course you're already here so maybe you didn't find what you were looking for. Second port of call is our blog http://blog.to.uri.st/ which is updated with to.uri.st news and goings on. Finally, there's the support site at http://support.to.uri.st/ or e-mail Paul directly on paul@to.uri.st or on Twitter.

Please send any feedback, comments, and suggestions to feedback@to.uri.st. We love to hear it and read everything we get, although we may not be able to respond to everything.

If you spot any spam or abuse that requires our attention, please let us know on abuse@to.uri.st.

We're very aware that although we feel that the data we have on the site is used under fair-use from it's original copyright owner and only helps to benefit the source site by driving traffic to them, we understand that some site owners may not want their data on our site. If you represent the owner of a site whose data is displayed on to.uri.st and you want it removed, please contact us and we'll respect your decision asap.

There's some things about us out there, here's a very short list:

• http://www.altsearchengines.com/2008/07/12/consider-this-url-httptourist-any-guesses/
  

• http://www.killerstartups.com/Web20/to-uri-st-interactive-map-of-tourist-attractions
  

• http://www.netwebapp.com/view/to-uri-st

The six images used in the description tags are all from Flickr:

• Copyright
  

• Delete
  

• Location
  

• Duplicate
  

• To Do
  

• Translated

The ten images used for the velocity animals are also from Flickr:

• Cheetah
  

• Hare
  

• Horse
  

• Greyhound
  

• Bear
  

• Human
  

• Squirrel
  

• Mouse
  

• Tortoise
  

• Sloth