Travel Communities, cont.

Markus Spath at netzwertig.com reviews three travel communities in German: triplib seems to be quite basic, tripwolf is built around content from the leading German travel book publisher and Geoflags is a quite cute maps mash-up.

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It's about geocoding, GPS, maps, location based services. Basically all kind of stuff that has something to do with location. It's that easy. I'm always happy to receive suggestions for new blog posts - just send me an email to...

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