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IVECO Tony @, Wherever., Freitag, 28. August 2015, 22:37 (vor 3135 Tagen) @ dare2go

When I first started researching for our traveling in SA, I used to keep a record of all the various lists of camping sites (using Firefox Scrapbook) that travellers were kind enough to provide in their blogs so I could access them off-line. Good in theory, but terrible in practice because the formats are all different, there is rarely any graphical interface, and anyway, who wants to search through multiple lists in the hope that there will be a suitable place somewhere near.


So being lazy, I only use lists that are available as or convertible to a GPX or CSV file and have at least some useful description that will come up on the GPS or BaseCamp or MapsPro. Then I discovered iOverlander which has incorporated lists from all sorts of sources into one standard format and made it freely available. Uncharacteristically for me, I have also used the paypal donate button in a fairly scroogish fashion to contribute a little to the running costs.

The other problem with individual lists is that three years after it is made it is highly suspect and you can waste time and money getting to a perfect site only to find a 3-metre brick wall around it. iOverlander has some chance of remaining current if only users would take a minute to update the details, and anyway, you can choose to ignore any entries not made within a certain period.
I know there are travellers who do make their personal lists available to iOverlander and that is what makes it such a useful tool that I have only come across two travellers who didn't know about it, and they were very grateful to be shown the light.

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Tony Lee
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