Peter Rodriguez
I'm interesting in creating travel and tourism apps for the sustainable travel niche.
Find FOIs
Add FOIs
FOI Locator
Features of interest locator
Find FOIs
Add FOIs
FOI Locator
Features of interest locator
Click on map to add FOI
| Feature | Point |
| Type | Accomm |
| Class | Hotel |
| Name | La Fuente |
| Url | www. |
| info@ | |
| Descrip. | This is ... |
| Tags | b&b, etc. |
| Photo | file1 |
FOI Entry Form
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This will use OSM nomenclature
During my trip I want to go from Quito to Cuenca. What places (FOIs) are nearby?
Name of Start POI
Name of End POI
Find POIs within...
- 1km -- 30 min
- 5km -- 1hour
- 15km -- 3 hours
Find FOIs within X distance from my main travel route
5 FOIs have been found ...
+Accommodation (2)
+Protected Areas (1)
+Climbing sites (1)
+TT service (1)
Refine
3 FOIs have been selected ...
Accommodation (1)
Protected Areas (1)
Climbing sites (1)
Share
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Find Trip Pals
Ping S. Providers
2 trip pals have been found ...
Bryan (1)
Lucas (1)
Date0
Ping Trip Pals
Date1
Ping Trip Pals
- Do you want to share a double room in Cuenca?
- Do you want to share a ride from POI1 to POI2?
- Can I join your day trek to POI1?
Travel Pals will have to ...
share travel route+POIs
share email
contact themselves directly
Competitors
They all have too much going on.
We need to keep it simple!
(Tripit offers basically one main service)
Key Ideas
- Map app with strong location intelligence
- Simple GUI
- Few but great features
- Show Gravatars + travel paths + rating
- Financial transactions take place elsewhere
I'll be in Ecuador from date1 to date2
I'm looking for travel pals
Trip path
What is a FOI
- Anything that has a fixed location (a geographical feature)
- A service provider (hotel, transportation)
- A protected area
- A tourist attraction
- A city, a village
- An event (location+time)
- A travel route/path
- A trip circuit ( a travel route + time)
- Can be a point, line or polygon
What is this?
- A platform were travellers can plan/create trip paths/circuits/itineraries
- A platform were travellers can share the above
- A platform that leverages spatial/location intelligence
- A bridge between travellers and services providers
- A bridge between travellers and TripAdvisor, AirBnB, Uber, etc.
What is it not?
- A market platform
- A travel booking platform
- Users will be re-directed to sites like TripAdvisor, Expedia, etc. to book services
How do we make money?
- Charge service providers a fee to post FOIs
- Charge wholesalers a fee for leads/clicks
- Sell data collected
Other Ideas
- Our goal should be to create FOI info capsules
- POI gravatars with links to more detailed content (Wikipedia, Travelpedia, etc.)
- Our goal should also be to contribute FOIs to OSM
- Our app will be power by OSM and others
- Do users need a login? Maybe not.
FOI Locator
By Peter Rodriguez
FOI Locator
Find+add+share travel related features of insterest
