JAMGuides:About

JAMGuides (http://jamguides.com) is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date and reliable world-wide travel guide. It is built in collaboration by JAMGuides users from around the globe.

The JAMGuides project was created in 2011 by Ryan Holliday, based on content from the Wikitravel project. The Wikitravel project was begun in July of 2003 by Evan and Maj; that project was inspired by Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and by the needs of travellers for timely information that long book-publishing cycles can't seem to meet.

JAMGuides is built with the spirit of sharing knowledge that makes travel so enjoyable. Whenever travellers meet each other on the road, they swap info about the places they came from and ask questions about places they're going. We want to make it easy to share that knowledge and let others share it; our copyleft license means that the facts you know can spread far and wide.

To create JAMGuides we use a tool (or a process, or a technology) called Wiki which lets any Internet reader create, update, edit, and illustrate any article on the Web site. We all share our pieces of knowledge, edit them, distill them, and assemble them into a pleasing and cohesive whole. The more people that use the Edit link, the better JAMGuides becomes.

We've achieved some milestones, but we still have a long way to go. If you're new to JAMGuides, feel free to plunge forward and help us!

Other JAMGuides sites

The JAMGuides universe also includes the following sites:

  • JAMGuides — JAMGuides's image repository and cross-language coordination site (bugs, feature requests, language versions, etc)

See also