Online travel guides, GPS systems and maps accessible through your mobile device are all the rage, but state officials in Utah are running out of the print versions of the official state road map and the Utah travel guide.
Western retro — Utah running out of printed maps, travel guides
June 11, 2010 By 2 Comments
Bing Maps opens to outside developers, BestParking.com finds a space
June 7, 2010 By 2 Comments
Microsoft opened Bing Maps to outside developers for the first time today, and BestParking.com was among the apps available in the Bing Map App Gallery on launch day.
Kayak explores map-based search for air, hotels, activities
May 25, 2010 By 5 Comments
Kayak introduced new map-based tools which enable users to search for flights, hotels and activities based on various parameters that they establish.
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Google expressed interest in Mobissimo, viewed product demo, launched own hotel maps
March 31, 2010 By 5 Comments
Curious developments in the world of maps, pricing and metasearch as it appears Google was courting a metasearch player in 2009.
Not to be outdone by Google hotel maps, TripAdvisor debuts maps with vacation-rental pricing
March 25, 2010 By 4 Comments
In its bid to move its vacation-rental listings’ business up a notch, TripAdvisor introduced a new mapping feature on its vacation-rental pages that depicts — in some cases — price ranges for a stay, as well as the top-rated area rentals, nearby restaurants, things to do, coffee shops and railroad stations.
Google Maps adds hotel search and pricing, panic and confusion assured
March 23, 2010 By 32 Comments
Google launched an experiment through its mapping division last night to place search and price functionality against hotel listings on Google Maps – implications of which could be far-ranging.
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TripIt maps employee travel with TripIt Groups
March 2, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Continuing its focus on corporate travel, TripIt created more than a 1,000 company groups and gave TripIt users the option to join them so they can see their cubemates’ travel plans.
Microsoft new visual eye candy on Bing Maps
February 16, 2010 By 5 Comments
Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Microsoft Live Labs has built a formidable reputation around himself after his now famous demonstration of PhotoSynth at TED conference in March 2007.
Hotel geo-coding standards might be a false-starter for travel
October 7, 2009 By 9 Comments
The UK’s Travel Technology Initiaitve is pushing ahead with plans to attempt to introduce a set of rules for geo-coding for the travel sector.
Executives at the organisation are keen to adopt an agreed set of standards throughout the hotel sector in order to ensure geographical information about properties is accurate and useful for consumers and third party websites.
The system would work by forcing the hotel industry to create a geo-code for each hotel which would then be verified before release to the wider world.
Unfortunately the TTI has a number of problems with this initiative.
