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MTBGuru: Track your adventures

by Emily Price Feb 15th 2007

MTBGuru is a mash-up between Google Maps, a photo program, and a GPS tracking program designed for people who go on lots of hikes, bike rides, canoe trips, and other such outdoor adventures. On the site you can upload data from your personal GPS system, upload pictures from your trip, and write a description of your trip.

In addition to being great for sharing your adventures with friends, you can also use the site to search for information about your own potential travel destinations. For instance if you were interested in visiting King's Mountain you can do a search for it on the site and pull up this travel log by dirk. You can read all about dirk's trip to the mountain, look at pictures, and look at a map of nearby trips with corresponding logos for what type of adventure they are (ie. bike, hike, etc).

Tags: bike trips, BikeTrips, gps tracking, GpsTracking, hiking blogs, HikingBlogs, plan outdoor trips, plan trips, PlanOutdoorTrips, PlanTrips, travel blog, travel site, TravelBlog, TravelSite

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Pubwalk makes planning a night out easier

by Emily Price Feb 4th 2007

If you're looking for somewhere to watch the big game today the site Pubwalk may be just what you're looking for.

Somewhat similar to the site Mappyhour, Pubwalk uses Google Maps to find bars in your area. Pubwalk takes it a step further by combing the map with reviews and other information about local bars from CitySearch. The result: pure brilliance.

Pubwalk could be great for traveling in situations where you don't know anything about the town around you but want to plan an excellent night out on the town. At first glace it looks like it only covers huge metropolitan areas. If you type in your address with zip code it should work for everywhere in the US.

Pubs can be filtered by their user rating as well as what type of bar they are (Dive, Piano Bar, Karaoke etc). The map on the site shows you exactly where each pub is located so you can plan a pub crawl with bars in close proximity to one another, the map also notes where you can get "Late Night Eats" along the way.

Once you select all of the bars you're interested in visiting ad plan your pubwalk the site will tell you how long your estimated walk is as well as how long it will take you. You can save your walk to look at later, share it with friends, embed it in your website, print directions out to distribute to your friends, or view your route on your mobile phone.

You can check out a Pubwalk I created for Raleigh,NC here.

Tags: bar maps, BarMaps, plan trips, PlanTrips, pub walk planning, PubWalkPlanning, resturant maps, ResturantMaps, trip planning, TripPlanning

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