Advanced Photo Search

The new ADVANCED SEARCH is open for public testing. This mighty tool will help narrow down your searches! Find your favourite pictures of the world.

The Advanced Search is a mighty and unique tool to search the database:

Users can for example search for pictures in the categories 'Beach, Coast & Port' and 'Sports & Activity' taken in August in the year 2005 in France, in the city of Lyon that were uploaded by user ffranz101 containing the keywords 'boat' and 'red'.

By using these options it also gets possible to search locations systematically for changes in the run of the years.

Press Release

What's worth visiting? MyGreatWorld.com wants YOUR impressions. For visitors, residents & friends.

One look is worth a thousand words! MyGreatWorld.com is about YOUR photos and about the places YOU have seen. It is about YOUR opinion and YOUR point of view. Share YOUR recommendations!

Is there an architectural must-see in your town? Which restaurant would you suggest to visit? Did you like your last hotel? Have you been to Stonehenge - and was it worth the trip?

At www.MyGreatWorld.com you can upload your captures of any spot worldwide and give a helping hand to future visitors - and maybe even an eye-opener to those living nearby... What's your favourite cafe, museum and landscape? Is your main-street made for shopping? And are there famous places you really suggest to avoid?

There are places you have to go and there are places you want to go. There are even those places you just happen to live in...
Whatever the reason for your stay or your visit, information from residents and those who know the place are always welcome, both, to make the best of out your trip and not to miss the secret beauties every place holds.

Descriptions are fine.
But pictures are better!
And www.MyGreatWorld.com offers the combination of both!

Press Release

Photo-community with a new approach: MyGreatWorld.com opens spot-related database-project

Whatever the reason for a visit to a place, photos & information from residents and those who know the spot are always welcome, both, to make the best out of a trip and not to miss the secret beauty every location holds: What’s Worth Visiting in New York? Where to stay in Paris? What to do in Sydney? What to avoid in Rome? Users may depict their recommendations on MyGreatWorld.com. For tourists. For residents. For friends. Worldwide.

Users find at MyGreatWorld.com a fast and lean framework to enrich with their photos, recommondations and opinions. A map-based navigation offers an easy access to the regions of our planet. Structure and designs are straightforward and comprehensible without popup-windows or superfluous gadgets.

The specific feature of this site, however, is the classification-option: Each photo can be assigned to given categories (gastronomy, hotel, art, nature,…). In combination with the option to date the capture, this forms a mighty tool to actually retrieve ordered and well-assorted first-hand information!

Is there a typical architecture in a town? Which hotel is it advisable to stay in? What’s a commendable cafe, a museum worth seeing or a beautiful landscape in a spot? The photos might also depict details of a (not) recommendable show, a folkloristic event, an interesting building or even ‘just’ the own road.
Users are invited to give a helping hand and insider-guide to future visitors - and maybe even an eye-opener to residents living nearby.

MyGreatWorld.com is a young project and, naturally, there is a lot of space yet to be filled. This also means, everyone is invited to be among the first to add a new spot and to become a pioneer to present the flair of a place to the world, the ambassador for his/her town, landscape or favorite point of interest.

MyGreatWorld.com lives from the users’ engagement and from the belief that on an international level there are no ‘boring’ or unspectacular photos: The world in all its facets is very well worth seeing and what’s ‘interesting’ is in the eye of the beholder…

Descriptions are fine.
But pictures are better!
And at MyGreatWorld.com users might use the combination of both.

Welcome to our offical company blog

What is this blog about?
This is the official company blog where we like to publish all information regarding to www.mygreatworld.com. Whenever there is something new on the webpage, any important changes are made or any press release has been published, you can find all necessary information here.

What's this all about?
The platform and framework www.MyGreatWorld.com provides serves one main reason:
www.MyGreatWorld.com is a visual database of locations.

This is great for travelers. Making plans for holidays sometimes proves to be unexpected hard work: In contrast to the pictures in the advertising glossy magazins the real place often turns out to be some dirty and f*cked up location in the middle of nowhere (or right in the centre of everything).

Therefore finding reliable information turns out to be the linchpin and challenge in every holidaymaking-strategy and photos made by residents or fellow traverlers help immensely.

But MyGreatWorld.com offers more than that: Within the upload-procedure the users insert their pictures in a coherent framework of regional and contextual categories that gives an easy access to key-information.

The Advanced Search is a mighty and unique tool to search the database:

Users can for example search for pictures in the categories 'Beach, Coast & Port' and 'Sports & Activity' taken in August in the year 2005 in France, in the city of Lyon that were uploaded by user ffranz101 containing the keywords 'boat' and 'red'.

By using these options it also gets possible to search locations systematically for changes in the run of the years.

Who are the founders?
When Marco Stuewe and Thorsten Scherff called MyGreat into life their aim was to establish an open and non-commercial platform for every user to share his/her impressions of any place on earth. They wanted to create a database for all the international main destinations which would allow for a simple and fast access both to pictures of a place or landscape and to user-comments on the respective location.

In the course of planning this project, however, they soon had to discover that there were far more spectacular places in the world than they had dared to imagine - ... and that some other fields of interest would round up their database-project nicely. Within a time span of just a few days more than 150 internet-domains were thought of and registered and are by now constantly and freely offered to the community for the benefit of everyone.