MapVivo users are great travel writers, and we love reading all about your journeys.
So, as a group of talented writers you might be interested to know that our friends at Bradt Travel Guides are running a great competition for travel writers offering you the chance to win a exciting holiday for two in Colombia. The winning story will be published in The Independent on Sunday and the author will earn a commission from the newspaper.
But don’t forget to put your story on the map with MapVivo!
Find out more about the The Independent on Sunday / Bradt Travel-Writing Competition
If you didn’t get yours already, here is our April Newsletter – click to read all about the latest at Mapness –> MapVivo:
We’d like to introduce you to the new-look Mapness: re-designed, re-named and re-launched this week with a raft of new features to help make your journeys and travel experiences even better.
Existing Mapness users can benefit from MapVivo’s new features straight away without the need to register for a new account – just log in as before.
The MapVivo team has been working steadily over the past months on our plan to develop MapVivo into the world’s best resource for travellers, enabling you not only to share your journeys with friends and family, but to help your explore the journeys of others and gain inspiration for your next trip.
We want the whole world to experience travel through your eyes. MapVivo allows you to ‘publish’ your journey so that others can explore your trips through our featured journeys and explore continents pages, or through our new dedicated countries and regions pages.
Visit MapVivo now!
We realise that we haven’t blogged anything for a while. We haven’t gone purposefully quiet, but we’ve been very busy working on our new release which is just weeks away.
We’re pretty excited about this and we are sure that all Mapness fans are going to like it.
In the meantime, here’s something to keep travel lovers amused:
The Daily Telegraph: 20 ridiculous complaints made by holidaymakers
Our favourite:
“No-one told us there would be fish in the sea. The children were startled."
Well, at least he mentioned us on his Net@night show last week when interviewing the Twitchhiker and he thought we were “pretty neat”..
Thanks Leo!
Paul’s trip will raise money for charity: water for which he is seeking sponsorship as he travels from point to point by accepting offers of transport and accommodation from fellow Twitter users. There are a number of rules which keep things exciting:
How’s it going? Quite well it seems – at the time of writing Paul has already travelled from England, onto mainland Europe, across the Atlantic ocean to New York, and has now successfully made it across the United States to San Francisco.
You can see details of his trip so far on by looking at the Twitchhiker’s Mapness journey, by reading his blog, or for latest information by following Paul on Twitter.
You can sponsor Paul at justgiving
Since the massive New Year’s Development Marathon things have hardly slowed down at Mapness..
We are now approaching the final phases of launching the latest release of Mapness, which is going to bring some substantial improvements to the Mapness experience, along with a couple of nice surprises at the same time.
However, this next release will be just one step on the long roadmap that we have planned towards Mapness becoming every traveller’s best friend. Some of the things we have planned for the future are:
Let us know what you would like to see on Mapness?
Image courtesy of Link to ToastyKen’s photostream via Flickr under a Creative Commons Licence
