Show HN: The most beautiful places on earth

Nice, but you should change the rectangular boxes to rounded corners, the corners look harsh and ugly.<p>Also, there's a distance underneath the link, but I have no idea what it means nor how to change it.

Hmm. You are only supposed to add pictures for new places. What happens when the first picture added along with a new place is beautiful, but much more beautiful photos exist? Worse yet, what if more representative photos exist?<p>E.g. arguably Mont Saint-Michel is a good candidate (in a similar vein as Mdina/Malta). I've got a nice, prototypical photo of Mont Saint-Michel, but I'm sure much, much better photos would be added -- the light was only okay, there are people in the photo, my camera back then wasn't the greatest. I've also got an image from within/on top of Mont Saint-Michel, which is also nice, but arguably the photo chosen to represent Mont Saint-Michel should be the classic "long shot" of the entire mountain/city/church.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Saint-Michel" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Saint-Michel</a><p>In the spirit of the site itself, maybe a community process could manage existing places. E.g. a regular contest/vote for a better photo or simply a wiki. And of course these are issues that only crop up when and if the site takes off, so they don't need to be solved for the first iteration. Although it does pose a problem even now, since I feel apprehensive about adding any of my images since I don't want to prevent anybody else from adding theirs!

I wonder why we don't see more map apps like this.<p>Just of the top of my head:<p>Around the world route maps (people submit the trips they did)<p>Greatest explorers route maps (although I guess there might be some problems with historical accuracy)<p>Geek Spots Around the world<p>Known Military Bases around the world (and perhaps a strategy game on top)<p>The use of large scale maps are IMHO still a very underutilized area because most go for the location based stuff.

I just found a place I'd like to visit. I saw "Valley of the Ten Peaks" in Canada. I visited Lake Louise on a road trip, but did not make it up to Moraine Lake. This makes me want to go back.<p>How will you keep the map from getting too crowded?

The social media bar is interfering somehow on chrome 21.0.1157.0 (Developer Build 139621 Windows) (with plugins set to click enable) and 1024*768 screen on xp.<p>Mainly, all the page under the bar is blank. this affects where the overview map thinks the center is, when you double click to zoom in. also, made the individual site pages uselessly narrow.<p>edit: deleting this node "&#60;div id="share_btns" class="panel"&#62;" makes it usable.

Similar: <a href="http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/</a>

How come Christ Church Meadow, Oxford, is also in Venice? See <a href="http://mostbeautifulplaces.org/item/5291686" rel="nofollow">http://mostbeautifulplaces.org/item/5291686</a> vs <a href="http://mostbeautifulplaces.org/item/5291685" rel="nofollow">http://mostbeautifulplaces.org/item/5291685</a> ... Hackish indeed... ;-)

Looks really cluttered, despite not having a lot up yet. Maybe have the boxes expand when the cursor is near?

Using safari (5.1.5) on mac, I can't click on any of the place links (works ok in chrome)

Good stuff!<p>I just added two new places (Niagara Falls and Yosemite Falls). I'm hoping for this to catch on, that way It can help me plan my US-West_Coast trip in a few months :D

You have badlands national park located near Minneapolis MN. I don't know if this was meant to be a joke or not but you're off by several hundred miles.

This is a really cool idea, it would be nice if you worked out a way for the boxes to not overlap though.<p>Where did you get your initial dataset from?

Reminds me a bit of <a href="http://www.where-is-this.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.where-is-this.com/</a>. Also a collection of very nice places.

You should make sure that the photos pass some sort of test for quality and resolution. I want to see photos that make stuff look truly beautiful.

Using content from Wikipedia without kind of attribution is not cool and not legal. All the descriptions seem to be verbatim copies. Boo!

So needed. Thanks.

Brutal on mobile.

I want to share this on twitter and attribute it properly, but you don't share your twitter handle anywhere on the site, or in your HN profile ...<p>Why don't people mention who they are when they make something awesome?

What makes a place beautiful? Is it the location or the scenery? If it is the former than your website design should is spot on. If the latter than you should get rid of the map as the helm and show users a beautiful grid of images with location info at the bottom.

It would indeed be a tragedy if Fukushima reactor 4 collapses. <a href="http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/06/01/fukushima-nuclear-reactor-4-lost-wall-sea-side-139651" rel="nofollow">http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/06/01/fukushima-nuclea...</a><p>It already is a tragedy.