As you may have noticed, we recently launched EveryTrail Destinations and continued to focus on making them as useful as possible for the community.
To start, we have added a map-based browsing system to help you find destinations nearby. You start out with a world map, divided into continents and regions:

Once you click on a continent, you will see a list of countries for that continent, and you will eventually land at a page like this (This is the California page):

You can see all locations on the map, and as you zoom in, you will see the boundaries of the destinations. Click a region on the map to reach the destination detail page, or look through the links below the map. We hope that this feature will provide a more useful browsing experience when searching for new nearby destinations.
Now, onto improvements for the individual destination pages…
For example, check out the Yosemite National Park destination page. On it, you will find a descriptive overview, a map with popular trips, guides, trips, popular activities, active users, tips, reviews, a place to ask questions, driving directions, and weather. Let’s take a look at some of the recent additions this week in more detail:
Ask a Question or Write a Review
We see Destinations as the best place to get information on a particular location, so we have added the ability to ask a question or write a review.

If you have been to a destination (you can see destinations you have been to on your profile page), it would help the EveryTrail community if you could post a short message with suggestions or any information that would help other travelers. If you are planning a trip, ask questions! We have many active users who are more than willing to share experiences and answer your questions. Active users will receive emails when you post questions, and you should get responses soon.

Subscribe to a Destination
You can subscribe to a destination (by default, you will be subscribed to any destination in which you have been active, i.e. created a trip). Subscribing to a destination means that you will receive updates in your activity feed emails (either once per day or once per week) which will include new trips in the destination, or new comments, questions, or reviews. You can edit your subscription preferences by going to Account Settings, on the Notifications tab.

Tips
We have added a feed of tips from the trips in destinations. This will automatically be pulled from any trip created within the destination bounds. So look out for those tips (bottom of the page), and please add some tips when creating trips to help others when they are planning new adventures.

Guides
Like the trip list, we have added a list of Guides related to the destination. These will provide a more objective description of particular areas or trails, compared to the more personal accounts provided in trips. They will also include driving directions, tips, and more details than trips usually do.

Wikipedia blurb
We have added Wikipedia blurbs to many of the destinations, for the case where a destination does not yet have an overview added. If you are an expert on a particular location, please create a new destination or edit an existing one to provide more information.








The most important one is synchronization between mobile and web. This makes the EveryTrail solution into a true cloud-powered mobile service. It ensures that all user data is stored centrally, and pushed out to mobile apps whenever requested by the user. And it will finally enable a core use case that many of you have been waiting for (or didn’t even know you wanted): As you become more and more active on EveryTrail, creating trips, friending other users, voting on trips, marking trips as favorites, you are in fact really starting to build your travel “profile”. The next time you find yourself at a destination, harnessed with your iPhone you can fire up the EveryTrail app, and request nearby information that is relevant to you. Which of your favorite trips are nearby? Who of my friends has been to this specific location? You now have the tools to not only get the information you need, but more importantly to act on it by selecting and then following your favorite trip, while capturing your own experience at the same time. In this new version we enable synching of My Trips and Favorite Trips, but of course you can expect more in the future.
And we’ve created a useful and gorgeous full-screen map mode that gives you the largest possible map view, which is ideal for when your trip is in progress and all you want to focus on is the map. 





