Simpatigo - Collaborative Travel Made Easy
Describing itself as a map-based travel guide with points of interest added by users like you, Simpatigo, creates personalized tour guides complete with directions and markers for attractions along a route. Users select beginning and ending points for the trip they’d like to take, along with which categories of attractions they’re interested in—historical, budget, kid-oriented or restaurants, for example. Simpatigo then returns map-based driving or walking instructions along with descriptions of the relevant points of interest along the route. Not only can users search for and get travel routes, but they can also input local attractions of their own, which then get added to those Simpatigo includes on its routes. So, a user seeking to get directions from point A to point B in San Francisco, for example, will see not just a standard list of mainstream attractions described by sources like the New York Times and TripAdvisor.com, but also others that have been input and described by users. [Via]
Currently however, the service is available only for San Francisco, but as the site claims,
Patience! As soon as we get one city under control we’ll redesign the site and include other places. If there’s somewhere you’d like Simpatigo to focus on, zoom out on the map and place the first marker to let us know if our next stop should be Napa, Manhattan or London.
Now, if only there was a mobile avtaar of this.
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Map based. Interesting.
Well they’re national now - all of the U.S. - http://www.springwise just had a focus piece on them too. Not clear whether they’re making money yet, but I imagine businesses would love to get featured in the printable tour guide section. Imagine - you’d only be paying for your ad to appear if someone were planning to walk or drive right by your place of business.