Online Travel Agent Cleartrip.com has re-introduced its travel guide Small World as a comprehensive mash-up, with partnerships with Yahoo, Flickr and Lonely Planet for content. Small World had first been launched by Cleartrip in 2006, in partnership with Loney Planet guide. What Small World does very well: it gives you instant access to comprehensive information, on over 3.2 million unique places, according to Cleartrip. I was in Patna over the weekend, and a search for Patna reveals the following: The temperature (tepid, at 42 degrees), currency conversion, minimum Airfare from Delhi to Patna for the next 5 weeks, average room rate in a 3 star hotel in the city, Photographs from Lonely Planet and Flickr, Hotels rates and user rating, and interesting places to visit. This new version was first demo'ed at TEDxMumbai* in April: Suggestions While Small World has adequate information, probably more than many sites, I do feel that it could do more as a mash-up. 1. Wikipedia Integration: When travelling, I tend to look at Google Maps for the place on my mobile, with the Wikipedia layer integrated. In terms of places of interest, I noticed that neither there were locations which were included in Small World and not in Wikipedia, and vice versa. Cleartrip could combine the two, and get the best of both Lonely Planet and Wikipedia; some of us are history buffs, and like to get a historical context to the places we visit. Cleartrip is using Google Maps on the site anyway. 2.…
