November 2009

• Let’s talk about pollution: check the green box below the title of the travel, next to the distance there’s the amout of CO2 emission for this travel (considering an average of 80 gr. of CO2 per km)
• We just added two new type of Point of Interest: movie locations and UNESCO World Heritage sites. In the travel section, just click on “Interesting places” in the “Suggest POIs” bar in every travel page to discover this places along your favourite route.
• Now it’s possible to create a travel following the roads on the map between the waypoints. Distances will be calculated more accurately. It’s possible that in some regions of the world the information about the roads are not accurated, in this case the route and the map will behave as usual (with straight lines between waypoints). To activate this option, open the “Edit travel details” in the travel page and check “Follow roads” option.

October 2009

• The controls of the map were updated as well as the waypoint icon: now it’s different from the Point of Interest‘s icon. Just to remember, the waypoint is a place you’ve passed through during your travel and has an impact on the roads followed on the map (the red line), while the Point of Interest is an interesting place along the route or a picture/video (bound to a particolar location)
• The buttons to add a Point of Interest and a waypoint were moved in a more intuitive position, directly in the top right corner of the map
• It’s now possible to suggest a Point of Interest (“Submit a POI” in the top menù) and contribute creating a database of places worth visiting during a travel. These “suggested” POIs will be available in the search results and during travel planning to all the Riders. To learn more about contributing to Riderpedia