Trip Sharing Platform

Project Description

This project comes from my personal experience traveling the US to visit national parks. I was looking on the google play store for an app to track which national parks we have seen vs. not seen. I assumed there would be an app that could track this for us and maybe even present a map or visualization of our progress that I could share on Facebook. This app doesn’t exist at the moment (some similar sites exist like http://www.travbuddy.com/world-travel-map, but this isn’t exactly easy to use or very powerful). So, we should create it but why limit it to national parks? I would like to develop an app/web platform where users can create a list of places to visit or things to do. Then other users can sign up for these lists and track their progress. We could build in national parks, national monuments, even restaurants in Lewisburg. But the best feature would be users could create new lists. This would allow very diverse and interesting lists to be created everything from Civil War battlefields to national ballparks. The site would have allow searching for nearby sites (geotagged) and leaderboards with statistics about who is in each challenge along with nice visualizations and social media connections.

Group Summary

Currently, there is no useful way to log and share notable places that they want to go to. People would like to share these lists of places with other interested users. Use cases include a list of national parks, popular local restaurants, and museums in a city. Therefore, it would be great to have a way for users to create these lists of places and compete with others. This app will encourage people to go out and explore the world! Lastly, this service would be based in a mobile app.

Identified Pains

It’s difficult to keep track of places that you’ve been, all while sharing those places too

There does not currently exist a way to invite people to participate in location based challenges.

Proposed Problem Description

Build a platform to list, record, and share different places that users have been and wish to visit. Users should be able to create lists of places to visit and share these with others. Lastly, the platform should be able to recommend to users different places to visit near their current or preferred location.

Proposed Goals

Integrate seamlessly with preexisting social media.

Utilize preexisting GPS and location based services.

Brainstorming

Our takeaways from brainstorming included some form of interactive sharing for those unable to leave the house, as well as having some way to opt in for seeing other peoples trips, and an easy way to add destinations to the application.

Tab Two: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qu2ZhHeuGOCV6srcJPBy0ehYGy29Kdn-VRHO44NMJ9M/edit?usp=sharing