Haven't downloaded the app yet, but from looking at the website, I have a couple suggestions.
1. If you can't edit each and every location, set down some rules. i.e. "Keep it simple." Some of the comments such as "Another night, another campground." or "First night on the Oregon coast" are not of any use to other users.
Frankly, I don't give a whether it is someone's first or 25th visit.
2. Add a field for price if campsite/hotel. Some descriptions include price, but some don't. Prices change over time, but a rough estimate could be helpful.
3. Change "Agricultural Checkpoint" to just "Checkpoint". Some countries have police checkpoints. It could be helpful to know when approaching one.

I can't find the download button. Could you make it a bit easier to find?
Downloading the GPX file will allow it to be input to MotionX GPS! which Surfy mentioned.

Good luck with your further development!

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Hi Chris!

I know, it's annoyingly hidden. We're working on a redo of the main navigation to fix this. Two ways to download:
1. By country
iOverlander | Places by Countries or
2. Do a search iOverlander | Search Places and at the top of the page right under the # places found, it says "Download these results as GPX | JSON | CSV | XLS."

Good point. A lot of our places initially came from big lists. Some of them great and lots of descriptions, some with really crappy descriptions. Our hope is that users that visit these places will clean up the information and give better information. The new places being added are excellent, it's the older info that was recorded before the site even existed that isn't as good. That's also why you see a lot of places where all of the amenities are marked as "unknown". Thankfully these are getting fixed quickly, we get two dozen place corrections every day!

We are struggling with this, because price can be measured so many ways. Per person, per vehicle, per site, per room, etc. And currency fluctuates as well. Currently when a user checks-in to a place it asks them to put the price paid in their comments, so that the price is also tied to a user and a date. Many of the places we added in bulk didn't have prices listed. That's why so many don't have the data. We could add a price field that is tied to the place itself, rather than having it in a comment, but you wouldn't know who added it, or how old it was. Would that be better than the current system?

Ohhhh, good point! We'll fix that.

Thanks for the feedback!!

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Hi Jessica, this is a great idea I really wish you the best of luck getting it off the ground! Without repeating what others have said here, I would just add that surely gas stations (or maybe unofficial places to find gas in places like Bolivia, etc) would be of great value to overlanders. That, and maybe even places of interest, i.e. tourist attractions that overlanders find along the way, or other places of interest. Just a thought!

Cheers!
Rtw

A few quick updates:

@Surfy: The view in MotionX GPS feature will be in the next release. I think Sam has you down as a beta tester, so as soon as he pushes that to beta you should see it. Email with questions, like always.

@Chris - Just changed Agricultural checkpoint to just checkpoint. Working on the price field solution.

@ridetheworld - Yep, we'll get these added too. Right now we have an "Other" category, so feel free to add anything in that, and we can update it later.

More coming soon

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About the checkpoints. I think it would be helpful to see what kind of checkpoint is coming. If they will check papers, or search the fridge for food who isn't allowed to take through to / from the quarantine area.

Maybe same Icon with different colors would be handy..

How can I upload pictures when I add wildcamp/campsites/lodges Places?

Surfy

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This app is incredible! I'll be sure to use it in SA, and maybe even add to it. Nice work!

Jessica,

Is there any way to download the information and put into, say a Garmin GPS as Points of Interest, etc?

Cheers!
Rtw