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RoadTripper: the perfect things-to-do planning platform
By Matt DeWald #174635
FOR MANY RIDERS, WINTER IS nothing more than a time of transi- tion, a period of time bookended by two riding seasons. During this tran- sition period, RoadTrippers provides an excellent platform to plan the next riding season or cross-country trip and to keep a rider’s appetite fresh with ideas.
Applicability RoadTrippers (
www.roadtrippers. com) is a free desktop website and mobile app (available for iOS and Android) that is rich with activities and things to see along any journey. After creating a user account with RoadTrippers, simply enter points of origin and destination and RoadTrip- pers identifies all the fun things to do along the way. With a few setting changes and clicks, the user can
expand the range of search results, add waypoints, and save their routes. (For this test, I used the desktop version on a Mac and RoadTrippers’ app version 4.1.0 on an iPhone 6 running on iOS version 10.1.1). While RoadTrippers does not navigate
from point to point, each waypoint can be “pushed” into Google Maps, Apple Maps, or Waze. Alternatively, users can string together the ideal route in another app such as BaseCamp, Google Maps, or inRoute (tested in BMW Owners News, May 2016, page 22) by using the addresses of points of interest from RoadTrippers.
Design and Content Upon opening the website or mobile app, RoadTrippers greets the user with a simple interface that displays a map of the current location and buttons for popular content, places to eat, and things to see “around me” or “along a route.”
It also shows
RoadTrippers’ pre-populated nearby “Trip Guides,” featuring routes and points of interest for road trip ideas. If a user is interested in creating his/her
own route, he/she may click “Start a New Trip,” enter starting and destination loca- tions, select the types of activities for the trip, and begin crafting the desired route. RoadTrippers features seven general cat-
egories of content: Hotels, Things To Do, Food & Drink, Camping & RV, Outdoors, Points of Interest, and Amusement & Nightlife. Each of these general categories is further broken down into subgroups. For instance, Things To Do includes subgroups of Children’s Attractions, Museums, Off- beat Attractions, Top Attractions, Tours & Excursions, and Zoos & Aquariums. Users can choose whatever combination of gen- eral categories or subgroups they desire so as to narrow search results. RoadTrippers’ content may include
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