Wandering through the expanses of the Internet, sometimes you come across interesting and useful services for travelers. I have in my head already a lot of thoughts, what could be so useful to do on travel-themed, what else is not, or what is not yet functional as it should be. But, whether the spirit is not enough, or I have enough knowledge, so for now I just go through the sites and see what do people who have everything they need. Here and found the newly emerging social network for travelers – tripcatcher.
Resource for independent travelers
Interactive flash card with the ability to navigate points
The project is still damp, but considering what ambitions his creators, it can firmly occupy its niche along with competitors. Already, it integrates the functions of different resources in one place that has long been time for someone to do. This immediately and a country guide, and a travel blogging platform, and a convenient tool to plan your route.
The content of the article
- 1 Site structure
- 2 Maps on travel blogs
- 3 Wikipedia Guidebooks
- 4 Standard functionality
Site structure
The structure of the site looks like this: You and thousands of other people create their blogs on this platform, lead them, talk about their trips, post photos. Then all the records are tied to specific points on the map, and structured for convenient search, thereby creating guides to all countries. In addition to posts from blogs, site creators themselves add information in guidebooks: weather, climate data, general articles about the country or city.
Maps on travel blogs
One of the innovations in the maintenance of a travel blog, which I have nowhere else saw – this is the creation of a map of his travel in the form of a diary, where you can go through the points on the map, opening the attached to them stories Conveniently, agree. By the way, these cards can also insert it into your own blog or LJ or just create for convenience of planning a route without stories about your trip.
Wikipedia Guidebooks
Another innovation is that each user can supplement any material in the guidebook in the manner of Wikipedia. Not less convenient, since the information will always be relevant. Sure, similar functional innovations, the creators will be please your users often enough.
Standard functionality
Of course, the site also has the standard functionality for projects of this kind: forum, hotel search, user list with the ability to add them to friends, friends news feed, broadcast recordings in social networks. Although the latter is not all
I would like to wish the creators to develop their project further, and also to recruit a specialized travel audience to guidebooks and the information in them turned out really useful for independent travelers.
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