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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