I blogged about the iPhone and travel applications a few posts back, we also mentioned the Mobimate application as well which acts as a travel assistant.
However another application has come to light with the addition of a new iPhone in my household I’ve also stumbled across an application called TripIt.
Similar to mobimate in some respects, this application allows you email your hotel and travel bookings to an address to build your travel itinerary and will then use your location combined with your travel plans to give you location specific advice and tips.
There is also a social networking aspect where several users of the application can share their itineraries and when overlap occurs this highlighted to you through its location based alert service.
Once the application has scanned in your emails and understands your itinerary you will get goggle maps driving directions, local information from Wikipedia, local pictures, current events (from Eventful), and restaurant reviews and recommendations (via OpenTable). And if you are flying, Tripit will even offer you seat advice (courtesy of SeatGuru).
A sample itinerary can be found here
The best thing of all about this apple iPhone travel application is that it is free! Some good ideas for the i-Travel application.
Find out more at Tripits website.
Tags: apple, i-travel, iphone, itravel, travel technology
January 27, 2009 at 8:50 am |
[...] blogged about this application before, the release of the API hopefully means that we may see more integrated solutions, the software [...]
February 24, 2009 at 11:30 pm |
in the last days I started to document my trips using the http://www.OnTheRoad.to server, which even has an application for my favourite iPhone. It really can handle a lot of things, I really recommend to have a look at it.
iPhone app is on http://www.ontheroad.to/iphone