I have a new article up on the Indie Travel Podcast website. I talk about “My Maps” on Google Maps which is a great way to keep track of travel suggestions. Here’s the first two paragraphs:
Today I want to devote my article to a single resource. The ““My Maps” section of Google Maps is a valuable resource for planning and sharing trip details with friends and family – you create markers on a map and you can add pictures and details to personalise it further. You can even choose different icons to use as markers for different types of location.
As nice as it is to have a map to imbed on a blog that shows where you’ve been, I prefer to use Google’s My Maps for pre-trip planning, by storing information about places I’d like to visit all over the US and Canada. I used to have data everywhere: boxes of scraps of paper, articles ripped out of magazines, links stored in emails I sent to myself after finding out about an interesting place online.
To read more, check out the article on the Indie Travel Podcast Website. I also take advantage of the ITP audience to hit them up for suggestions for places to visit in Hawaii (I have to admit that this was the main reason I choose to write this particular story now rather than save it for later). I’m pleased to see that I’ve already gotten some suggestions. Now I’ve just got to go through and add all these to the map.
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