BOATING GUIDE to AMERICA
Boating Guide to America is written collaboratively by thousands of USPS members! It uses a special type of website, called a "wiki", that makes collaboration easy. You may already be familiar with "Wikipedia", a hugely popular collaborative encyclopedia. Boating Guide to America is like a "boating destinations" version of Wikipedia.The results of our effort are an on-line boating guide available to the public through the USPS web site. It appears as a USPS boating guide titled “Boating Guide to America”.
Preview it by looking at the web site http://www.boatingguidetoamerica.com/ As you can see the “Boating Guide to America”, covers virtually every harbor and port-of-call in America and is accessible through USPS websites. The content includes Charts, photographs, port facilities, emergency services, things to do while in port, restaurants, anchorages, history and much, much more. And all USPS members are eligible to contribute to the content.
Don't be afraid to edit-any USPS member can edit almost any page, and we encourage you to be bold! Find something that can be improved, either in content, grammar or formatting, and fix it. Or add an article about your favorite boating destination - coastal, lake or river. Your changes will be recorded as "recent changes". Inappropriate changes will be removed by a USPS Moderator, and repeat offenders will be blocked from editing.
You can't break this website. Anything can be fixed or improved later. So go ahead, edit an article and help make Boating Guide to America the best information source on boating destinations on the Internet!
We are in partnership with Maptech, who provides the computer facilities and the software support. The software has been written, the computers have been purchased, the system has been tested and is up and running.
More detail is provided in BoatingGuidetoAmerica08-08-06, a Power Point Presentation. (2108 KB)