EveryTrail.com

I have spent the past several weeks trying to understand how I wanted to integrate trip information using GPS tracklogs, pictures, maps and other bits of information from our trips. In the research I came across an interesting service by Every Trail which to this point seems to fit the bill of what I am trying to accomplish. I have, however, heard great things about the Trimble Outdoor Adventure Planner as something that may accomplish a similar task plus a little more.

While I haven’t looked into the Trial Version of Outdoor Adventure Planner, I will be doing so in the future. A few things I like about the Every Trail service so far:

• Seamlessly downloaded Track and embedded the Tracklog and Statistics in Google Maps.
• Great Geo-tagging features of photos that cross-reference the time stamp on the photo with that of your Tracklog to intuitively place photos along the track. While not 100% perfect it was pretty damn close!
• Opportunity to make trip public or private.
• Appears to integrate with Blogs…so hear she goes……
  
  Merrill Creek Reservoir at EveryTrailMap created by EveryTrail:Share GPS tracks

Originally, I had set-up this Blog on Wordpress, however, because of limitations with Iframes, I have moved it over to Blogger. The one thing I liked about Wordpress was the ability to create multiple pages within a Blog. For example, we are planning trips to Hawaii and Acadia National Park and I would have liked the fucntionality to create a separate page for each of those topics. Presumably, however, I should be able to accomplish the same with Tags within Blogger so this will evolve as time goes on.

Much more to come...Enjoy!