Pajero Owners Club of South Africa

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

Hey andy.

Thanks for the cool link. Pity I didn't know about it a while back. Have now registered.

Oh and Welcome!

>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 .
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

Very nice app, awesome will definitly use it