Mimoa

mimoa

An update of sorts on a previous post finding architecture I posted over a year ago now. MIMOA is a new website for finding good Architecture in Europe. A database like nextroom but with a social aspect with the ability to contribute, comment and print off projects when travelling. I have held off mentioning it until I had gone to Copenhagen so I could put it through its paces.

So what was it like then? I found it already covered Copenhagen pretty well, although copenhagenx is the best website for the Danish Capital (maybe for any city), still for its age it has an impressive directory of buildings already. I printed off all the pages on Copenhagen and found it really good at helping to filter the buildings and working out my route. It is linking up also with the magazine A10 so filling up the site with buildings should’nt be a problem.

A couple of issues I had were the current print page doesn’t work that well, with no map showing up and the right sidebar slipping, so a screen dump of the building you want to visit produces a better version which is a hassle. Other than that congratulations on a very nice site which I hope to use and contribute to over the coming years. Oh and here is my list of possible future features that could be added;
Expand to the rest of the world
pdf booklets and ability to plot routes
Ability to upload google sketch up models and videos, and last but maybe most importantly….
Georss feed & kml- how about a kml link like flickr so we can see these buildings on Goggle Earth? & with a georss feed I could be automatically updated if a new building is added in Finland or Copenhagen forinstance.

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  1. Naomi says:

    Hi Lewis,
    Thanks for the post and all suggestions. Crossing the great Atlantic is something we look forward to as well, but let’s first make everything work for Europe. The pdf booklet is our next milestone, to be developed this year [2007]. So keep yourself posted and see you on MIMOA.
    Best,
    N

  2. lewism says:

    Naomi,
    Thanks for the quick response. Hope I can contribute and I’m always watching an exciting growing site like yours!

  3. Matthijs says:

    Just read your suggestions! Take a look at MIMOA now:
    > World coverage
    > KMZ files
    > PDF guides
    > Add Youtube Video comments to projects
    > Flickr Group

    Just missing the Google Sketchup suggestion!

  4. lewism says:

    Matthijs,

    First thanks for stopping by. Yes Mimoa has come along way in a short time infact it’s starting to become indispensable. My suggestions turned out to be pretty good predictions too, so I’m going to have to update this post I can see.

  5. A very similar site to Mimoa is Urbarama. Urbarama is a Web 2.0 Atlas of Architecture and it’s not restricted to Europe neither to ‘modern’ architecture as Mimoa was originally. It comes with an API and projects, maps and user profiles come with an ‘embed’ feature to display projects in blogs or websites a la youtube.

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