Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Developers Tab/Iframe For Showing Travel Experiences

Ok, this week we're going to be launching a site every travel blogger is going to love.

A fully functional interactive map system that is far more robust and holds a lot more information than current solutions.

Basically, it's going to be Oistr encompassed in a blog.

Blogger is great, in the pursuit of ultimate flexibility and customization you have access to the actual HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) where you can insert all sorts of awesome things to make your page better.

We're going to provide a tutorial and the ability for any blogger who would like to show their pictures and video on a map (and post it in the public domain for the rest of the world to see - and even better, link back to the blog) that is interactive and intelligent. It will show people exactly where the bloggers content from a single city or the entire world.

It works like this: You go to www.oistr.com where you create an account and upload your photo's or embed the Youtube videos. Once they're up you place them on the map in groups called "trips" where they took place by hand (moving the map around to the location and clicking on the exact location) , by lat/long (if you have GPS) or by address.

Next, you add the code for embedding the trip in your site. You can even add the individual trips to a master trip so you can show everywhere you've been in the world or just the latest stops.

Voila, a fully interactive map that allows users to finally get the full scope of where you've actually been whether it's 500 miles between cities or 32,000 across a continent.

Please go, enjoy!

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