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Tourist Attractions & Activities Map Data for Internet, GPS, & Wireless Applications
About SiteServers Data

Map data for Internet, GPS, Wireless, and PC applications of tourism attractions and activities

 Applications

Our map data is ready-to-use for these applications:

  • Internet map services: Microsoft's Windows Live Local powered by Virtual Earth; Google Maps; Yahoo Maps; AOL's MapQuest
  • Internet sites: add our attraction locator to your existing website
  • GPS devices: in-car and portable navigation systems
  • Wireless cell phones
  • PC map applications

Data provided:

  • Label(s) for the point of interest
  • Latitude & longitude
  • Physical street, city, state, zip
  • Mailing street, city, state, zip
  • Phones & fax
  • Website URL
  • Description
  • Keywords

 Quality

Location Accuracy

See actual search problem examples .

Finding the right spot on the road isn't as simple as putting an address into a map system...

  • Often it places a site at the wrong place.
  • Sometimes an address isn't found because a map lacks current roads.
  • Many sites have no addresses, like waterfalls, parks, landmarks, historic buildings, etc.

SiteServers overcomes these limitations by placing difficult-to-map sites the right way: humans locate them on the map, so your GPS system will navigate correctly.

Address are corrected as follows...

  1. If the site receives mail, our data includes the USPS CASS corrected street address spelling, postal city and 9-digit ZipCode.
  2. If mail isn't delivered to the site, we provide another mail address (when possible) in addition to the physical address which always includes the closest street name and the postal city and 5-digit ZipCode from the map system. A street number is included if the site has one, even though mail isn't delivered there.

 Complete Data

What We Include

The SiteServers Tourism Attraction & Activities Map Data includes all things that tourists do and see while visiting an area, including recreation, sports, history, arts and culture, entertainment, and attractions. Our goal is to include all points of interest that are promoted by local, regional, and state tourism and government organizations.

We work hard to include important locations missing in many online directories, such as natural wonders, historic sites, beaches, government and university points of interest, rural locations, etc. Since they aren't profit-making businesses that advertise in yellow pages or report to firms like Dun & Bradstreet,  these locations are not found in typical business directories.

We do eliminate some points as follows...

  • We do not include hotels and motels, restaurants and some retailers, unless they offer tourism activities (such as a ski resort, golf resort or a guest ranch offering horseback riding) or because they are located in an historic structure or unique area such as a national park, or are in themselves a "destination" to which tourists travel, like a district of antique or art galleries. For example, a resort hotel within the Disney World complex is in itself a destination, whereas the many ordinary hotels and motels nearby are not.

Presently, commercial campground/RV parks are usually not included unless they offer attractions or recreation activities to the public. Government  campgrounds within parks or recreation areas usually are included.

For golf courses, we provide keywords to help users identify them: public, semi-private, private, resort, and military.

Inclusion in our database is subject to review by our staff. We allow points of interest to submit a request to be included, and soon will allow them to update and improve their listings online, but our staff reviews every location before our data is published.