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July 15, 2008
Schmap visual travel guides
Schmap is a nice travel resource to use when customers (or you) want a guide to what cities, attractions, or other areas look like. They gather photos of attractions in Flickr and put them together with descriptions for a travel guide. They've used a few of my photos, which is how I heard of them. But I'm impressed with their content so I can honestly recommend them without feeling dirty ;)
To the right is a screenshot from their new webpage advertising their services for the iPhone, which includes one of my photos as one of the examples on the iPhone screen. I am famous! OK, now I feel a little dirty.
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Just to correct Philip's post above, you don't have to install the client application to view the online guides (although installing the application will allow you to view content offline, and provide extra functionality).
Posted by: Arthur Hoggins | September 2, 2008
Just a suggestion - perhaps you need to mention that the service requires a software download in the form of an .exe file, followed by a data download for each venue. My initial impression was that it was entirely web-based.
Thanks,
Philip Jones
Posted by: Philip Jones | July16, 2008
Be careful though. They use the descriptions and tags people put on their Flickr photos to determine what it is, and they are not always right. They asked me if they could use one of my photos of an 1899 home I lived in while working at a nearby state park as a photo OF the park (because I'd used the park's name in my photo description). I said no and explained why, but that doesn't mean everyone does that.
Posted by: Amanda | July16, 2008
