PlanetEye: One stop travel planner

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PlanetEye: One stop travel planner

by Brad Linder Jul 10th 2008

PlanetEye is a new travel site that uses Microsoft technology and partnerships with third party services like OpenTable and Travelocity to provide a ton of information about in one place. Just enter a destination and PlanetEye will bring up a map with a bunch of dots representing points of interest. Click on a dot to see shared pictures from that location.

You can also click on the hotels, restaurants, or attractions buttons in the sidebar to switch from the picture view to something a bit more useful. Or you can turn off the map and click on the City Guide to bring up a list of places to eat, sleep, and visit.

If you've registered for a free account, you can save information you find on the site to a "travel pack" which you can share with other users or just use as a tool for planning your own vacation.

[via AppScout]

Tags: planeteye, travel

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Quikboy said 5:49PM on 7-12-2008

I love how they use Virtual Earth. The road maps on VE are much better looking and easy to follow than Google Maps

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