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Travellerspoint Travel Community aims to be a one-stop gathering ground for world travelers; the site hosts blogs, provides a gallery service for photographs, offers tips on destinations and accommodations, and provides its members a Reunion feature to track down and reconnect with lost friends made on one’s travels.
However, the newest feature on the site, and the one with the most potential for integration, is the Travel Mapping Feature:
When you’re traveling or have just returned from a trip, one of the first things you want to do is show pictures and tell stories about the places you visited. By creating a travel map, you can do exactly that.
You can also use a world travel map to plot your itinerary for a future trip. And because our maps have been set up to incorporate your travel photos and blog entries, your map will be updated automatically.
After signing up for a free account, simply click on “Map Your Travels” and begin entering your trip information. The location fields are intuitive, so if you’re not quite sure how to spell that area you visited in Hong Kong, the auto-suggest feature well set you on the right path. And the “Leaving By” field delineates your mode of travel into Airplane, Bus, Train, Car, Boat and Foot, allowing for the possibility that there are many ways to get where you’re going.
The map itself is not as detailed as something you would get from Google Maps, and the number of actual named cities and towns is disappointingly low, but the ability to integrate both blog entries and photos onto your travel map is a robust way of keeping track of your travels.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
I’m not sure what this post is about. It reads like the ‘about’ page of a site or like a long advertisement.
February 16th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
Hi, I’m the guy who implemented the large part of the maps at travellerspoint (and just in case, to Timen and other readers: I had nothing to do with the post being here; just followed a random string of weblogs linking to each other to end up here), and I’m wondering about the “disappointingly low” comment on the number of cities and towns, as I did quite some cursing on the large size of the database with those.
There’s nearly two million unique records in it. Could you give some examples of cities and towns that you’re missing specifically?
Admittedly we don’t show anything beyond the most important ~50k of them until you’re zoomed in a long way (it’s been hard to find the right balance for this between densely populated areas like Europe and sparsely populated ones like Africa), and it’s quite possible that there are individual countries that are missing many cities, but overall I myself have only encountered a very few cases where a city I’d visited wasn’t in the database, and I did _a lot_ of spot-checking.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:57 am
As a travellerspoint user myself ,found the number of actual named locations quite satisfactory.Of course is not everywhere,but other than the main places i found really tiny villages in isolated regions that i really did not expect to find there, you just have to zoom a bit…
Congrats to all the Travellerspoint crew and thanks for the site.
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 am
As a travellerspoint user myself ,found the number of actual named locations quite satisfactory.Of course is not everywhere,but other than the main places i found really tiny villages in isolated regions that i really did not expect to find there, you just have to zoom a bit…
Congrats to all the Travellerspoint crew and thanks for the site.
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