Hi Folks
New to this Club (great idea) and finding my way around. I thought that those interested in sharing their travels might be interested in a great site I found recently called Everytrail (http://www.everytrail.com). Essentially you can use your GPS, Blackberry, iPhone, or Windows enabled mobile phone - if it has GPS capability - to track your trips which can then be uploaded to your part of Everytrail along with photographs taken - either using your phone camera, or whatever camera you may have.
Anyone interested in following your trail can download the GPS file to their GPS or GPS-enabled phone. Trails can also be downloaded to Google maps and viewed in 3-D. Great for keeping a record of your off-roading, mountainbiking and hiking trips
As you become more adept at this you can start writing guides - more difficult as they are reviewed by a panel before being published.
It's a really great tool and its FREE (at the moment at least). I have looked at other similar Web2 applications and personally found this one to be the most comprehensive.
You can view examples of the few trips I have done and uploaded at: http://www.everytrail.com/profile.php?user_id=144526
Looking forward to following your trips.
Regards
Andrew
Site Admin
Hey andy.
Thanks for the cool link. Pity I didn't know about it a while back. Have now registered.
Oh and Welcome!
Thanks for the cool link. Pity I didn't know about it a while back. Have now registered.
Oh and Welcome!
Simon Bloomer
>Have now registered.
It's a bit like Twitter in that one user can follow another, so I am now following you and look forward to seeing your trips.
While it is easyish to edit trips in Everytrail, I find it easier to edit my trips using a tool called Prune (http://sourceforge.net/projects/prune-gps/) which uses gpsbabel as it's engine. Using Prune also allows me to geotag my photographs at the same time.
Have fun.
And thanks for the welcome, looks like a good place to be - especially for a Saffie who misses home terribly
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Andy
It's a bit like Twitter in that one user can follow another, so I am now following you and look forward to seeing your trips.
While it is easyish to edit trips in Everytrail, I find it easier to edit my trips using a tool called Prune (http://sourceforge.net/projects/prune-gps/) which uses gpsbabel as it's engine. Using Prune also allows me to geotag my photographs at the same time.
Have fun.
And thanks for the welcome, looks like a good place to be - especially for a Saffie who misses home terribly
.Andy
Good morning
The weekend falls on Fridays and Saturdays here in the UAE, so it's off to work this morning. Good game of rugby yesterday - fantastic to watch when you have nothing resting on the outcome. Did a short trip on Friday to find a link between wadi Madha and the Fujairah-Dubai main highway. Posted this trip on Everytrail: http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=637765. By the way, you can also download the trip from the Everytrail site and view it in Google Earth - gives you a sense of the region.
It would be interesting to see your trips online.
Regards
Andy
The weekend falls on Fridays and Saturdays here in the UAE, so it's off to work this morning. Good game of rugby yesterday - fantastic to watch when you have nothing resting on the outcome. Did a short trip on Friday to find a link between wadi Madha and the Fujairah-Dubai main highway. Posted this trip on Everytrail: http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=637765. By the way, you can also download the trip from the Everytrail site and view it in Google Earth - gives you a sense of the region.
It would be interesting to see your trips online.
Regards
Andy