Spot atlas are wiki-like worldwide spot directories; true collaborative websites based on active sports enthusiats. The wanna-communities are key elements of the websites. Members can communicate, plan trips, buld their favourite spot list/logbook and more...
Mobile
Our platform is now available on mobile phones; the first release of Wannasurf and Wannadive are available on Android smartphones.
Advertising
We offer a highly focused advertising and promotional opportunity for the surf, dive, kite and sk8 travel industry. A niche marketing opportunity to promote sports and outdoor related products and services at a CPM rate that is very competitive.
Websites
Wannacorp manages several websites based on a unified platform.
Wannasurf.com
Surf
Wannadive.net
Scuba diving
Wannakitesurf.com
Kitesurf
Wannask8.com
Skate, Roller, BMX
Wannaskydive.com
Drop zones
Other sports
Rock climbing, Skiing, Golf, etc.
About
We are sports enthusiasts creating and running several atlas/community websites.
1999
Our Humble Beginnings
As with many successful websites, WannaSurf.com was created by two people in their spare-time, with no budget and no significant revenues. The original need was to share surf spots between a Tahititian and an Angolan surfer(!), find new spots and open these data with other surfers. Wannasurf was released as the first wiki-like worldwide surf spot atlas; a true collaborative project based on active surfers. This was three years before Wikipedia!
February 2005
Divers join the team
Wannasurf concept of the surf spot atlas was great and a new guy, who was a surfer and a scubadiving instructor, join the team to enhance the concept to worldwide dive sites. Instead of cloning the Wannasurf website, he built a new platform to easily clone the concept for other sports...
March 2006
Wannakite & Wannask8
... and this was made a year later with two new wanna-atlases created for kite surfers and skaters.
December 2006
User community launch
A new community application was integrated into the wannaplatform; providing new great features for all wanna-atlases users: Favourites spot lists, personnal logbook, user photo albums and much more... This was just three months after Facebook opens to all!
October 2008
Google Earth partnership
Wannasurf partners with Google to embed some wanna-atlases information into Google Earth V5. Wannasurf, Wannadive and Wannakitesurf spots are now available into Google Earth > Ocean layer > Water sports. This great feature is announced during the Google Ocean launch October 6th, 2008.
February 2015
Mobile applications
A new mobile platform is developed; based on new web services provided by the wanna-platform. Wannasurf and Wannadive Android applications are released.
September 2020
Docker and Kubernetes
All wannacorp websites and development tools have moved to Docker containers and orchestration systems (Kubernetes and Docker Swarm). Our source code has been moved from SVN to Git and each part of our system is now handled with configuration as code. We gain in productivity, scalability, deployment easiness, operational consistency and portability.
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Our Amazing Team
Colleagues, friends but first all sports enthusiasts!
Pisco23
CEO, founder of Wannasurf
Yannator
CEO, founder of Wannasurf
Chris
CEO/CTO, the scuba guy
Wanna-sites would not be what they are today without all our community members: surfers, divers, kitesurfers, skaters... First of all, these atlases are user-generated content. They all are part of the wanna team!
Contact Us
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World surf spot atlas & surfers community.
Born in 1999, WannaSurf.com provides free high quality information about surfing spots and locations around the world, and attracts hundreds of thousands of surfers every month – serving about 8 million page-views. The information, photos and text are all provided by the users, creating a hub for dedicated practitioners of a sport that is otherwise very fragmented and highly individualistic. The site currently hosts over 9.000 surf-spots, illustrated by over 54,000 photos. December 2006 saw the launch of a Sufers Social Network, specifically aimed at Blogging Surf Sessions and Surf-Trips. When wannasurf.com was established the terms "User-Generated Content" and "Community" did not exist in cyberspace – we are proud to have anticipated and exploited these major trends, whilst avoiding many of the pitfalls that were considered to be "best practice" at the time. WannaSurf.com has provided free promotions for Save the Waves and Surf Aid International, as well as providing a widely used forum for connecting people affected by the 2002 Asian Tsunami.
Born in 2005, Wannadive.net provides free high quality information about dive sites and locations around the world, and attracts hundreds of thousands of divers every month. The information, photos and text are all provided by the users. The site currently hosts over 10.000 dive sites, illustrated by over 13,000 photos.
Born in 2006, Wannakitesurf.com provides free high quality information about kite spots and locations around the world, and attracts thousands of kitesurfers every month. The information, photos and text are all provided by the users. The site currently hosts over 800 kite spots, illustrated by over 1.000 photos.
Built: 2006
Spots: 800
Community: 2.000 members
i class="fa fa-info-circle"> Wannakitesurf spots are part of Google Earth; See Ocean > Water sports layer.
Enjoy and contribute!
World skateparks & skaters community.
Born in 2006, Wannask8.com provides free high quality information about skate parks and locations around the world, and attracts hundreds of skaters every month. The information, photos and text are all provided by the users. The site currently hosts over 650 skateparks, illustrated by over 650 photos.
Built: 2006
Spots: 650
Community: 800 members
Enjoy and contribute!
World drop zones & skydivers community.
Born in July 2008, Wannask8.com was providing free information about drop zones and locations around the world. The site was hosting ony 50 skateparks, illustrated by over 50 photos, and has been closed in 2014 due to the lack of activity and editors. If skydivers are interrested in this website; we can reactivate it :-)
Built: 2008
Spots: 50
Community: 100 members
Other sports atlas
Rock climbing, Skiing, Golf, etc.
Wannacorp atlases are based on a common platform; creating a new atlas & community takes only a couple of days. We could imagine having a lot of other websites based on this concept. Let us know if you want to participate into a new wanna-website!
Legal information
Wannasurf.com Ltd
Wannasurf.com Ltd is a Private Limited Company registered in UK n°04888810.
