Trace Your Travels

Yahoo News reported Online Scrapboooks Let Globetrotters Trace Their Travels

Soon you may be able to search your life history online to recall where you ate that fabulous dinner in New Orleans six years ago or the names of those two dopey dudes you met in Acapulco when you were 21.

TravelPost has launched a free service designed to let people store and share personal travel experiences online, using tools for creating illustrated diaries and itinerary maps. Users are encouraged to rate cities, hotels and restaurants they have visited, information that becomes searchable by other users to help them plan vacations and business trips.

Information that people post to personal areas of TravelPost.com can be kept private or made public. Either way, the info can be tracked on maps, timelines or regular Web pages. Tell TravelPost all the cities you have visited, for example, and it will display your journeys on annotated maps, calculate what percentage of the world's total surface you have covered and tell you how many countries you have yet to visit.

This looks like a very interesting site. I think the article may be stretching things with the line "Soon you may be able to search your life history online to recall where you ate that fabulous dinner in New Orleans six years ago or the names of those two dopey dudes you met in Acapulco when you were 21", because you would have to record all of those details before it would be available for you to recall, but the fact that the information you post can be kept private or made public has definite appeal.

• Private
  If you choose to make your trip private, you can record the names of those two dopey dudes, and perhaps you will want to recall them later
• Public
  If you had a good trip, and discovered tome useful things that someone else might be interested in (such as where you ate that fabulous dinner in New Orleans) you can share those details with others, AND if others share the details on their trips, you can take advantage of reviewing where they went, and what they thought about it, and take advantage of their experiences, to make your trip even more memorable.