Comments on: Online & tech trends I’m watching in 2010

By: wilhelmus

wilhelmus — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:26:55 +0000

Thanks Martin and your absolutely right. Its part of my “location based” caqtegory. Maps are huge and will get better and better. From my experience, you can never have enough maps.

By: wilhelmus

wilhelmus — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 06:26:55 +0000

Thanks Martin and your absolutely right. Its part of my “location based” caqtegory. Maps are huge and will get better and better. From my experience, you can never have enough maps.

By: Martin Schobert

Martin Schobert — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:42:47 +0000

I totally agree. The only thing I want to add is “mapmania”. It is fascinating how often maps are used during the travel planning process of a journey. MapQuest, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, Nokia Maps and so on provide much more travel information than most top 10 travel sites of a country if they are counted together. So – the question for tourism organisations is – how to bring their brand, their useful content with benefits for (potential) guests to these map-applications.

The answer – it is much easier as most peoptle think, f.e. loading pictures up to google maps with panoramio. There are hotels in Austria which already mangaged to load up 10%off coupons to google maps. Nokia as one of the largest provider of mobile maps is the next giant who will be open for excellent content of touristic products.