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Improvement for Travellers' Blogs?
For some strange reason (Googling something unrelated) I ended up at this website:
http://triptracker.net/
Pretty cool system of hosting travellers' blogs with satellite photos as maps and decent sized (1024x768) photos available in a slideshow format. They link photos to places if you upload your GPS tracks too.
Any chance of getting something similar or is it too much like work?
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REALLY hard at this point - but YES it's on the list. 
Great find Ekke, best example of this I've seen yet. I'd love to just buy their technology and plug it in. OR get a programmer who likes it and wants to help add it.
We ARE working on partnering with others for GPS and tracking tech, so more to come this spring and summer.
have a great New Year!
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A very nice example indeed!
I uploaded all my track-logs from my Island trip in 2006 to test the functionalities.
http://triptracker.net/trip/1489/
It works very well. Although the map is a bit slow on my computer. But I uploaded 2.3MB track-log  It takes a while to load the tracks, please be patient.
As a programmer I wanted to make a website like this for a long time. Very nice to see this one! The website is quite smart. You can make log entries, and the website maps the corresponding track-log automatically by date.
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And it automatically links certain track-points to places, and uses this places in the log entries. Very nice. The only thing you have to do, is add all the log entries and after that upload all the track logs. That's it! That's takes some time to develop I think. Perhaps its best to integrate existing software.
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have a look at this. similar and quite fast too
http://www.travelpod.com
liked the " Where are people travel blogging from right now?" section
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Or perhaps we could integrate the google maps api. You could build any website around that one an has many options.
Looks nice too:
http://blog.devogel.net/index.php/tracklog2006/
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Planning - it's on the list!
The http://blog.devogel.net looks good, nicely done.
We have someone working on a Google map system to get all the Communities and repair shops etc on, and this would be a very cool addition to it. The only negative is the requirement for Google Earth to get the advanced stuff, but the basic web based one is probably good enough for our purposes, although you can't zoom in as is.
Anyone care to spec what we DO want?
I think: - Visitors should be able to see a track ala: http://blog.devogel.net where a traveller has been.
- Need to be able to zoom in to get more detail when it's available - and face it, Google does NOT have a lot of detail for most of the earth, but will of course get more
- Traveller needs to have easy input method from GPS device
- System needs to integrate into a users HU blog.
- An interface where visitors can download a track and input to their own GPS or map system.
- Info on the track, more than just the map - e.g.
- road conditions, problems
- Food and gas stops
- Average speed
- Police problems
- Camping spots
- Rating of the route/ride/conditions/fun factor
- etc.
- Video footage / photos
- Comments - others need to comment / rate / update the track and conditions once they've ridden it.
- must be more! Think about it from two viewpoints - the person out for a day ride at home, AND the traveller far from home. Remember that they could be on the same road but with a very different perspective and need for info.
Any input on this thought is much appreciated - we do plan to do it, but it's all priorities, and unfortunately it's not top of the list, other more important stuff like basic infrastructure, new blog software, new shipping and border databases, and meeting management system is taking all my attention right now. Once all that's done this is very much of interest. If someone - or someone's - would like to work on it in parallel we'd be delighted! We can't pay much but we can pay a little. Any volunteers?
Thanks,
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