I think that a useful Web 2.0 mashup site would be a site that simplifies the planning and driving of long road trips. I would have on this mashup site mapquest.com, to help the person find a simple map and directions to use when driving. I would also have traffic.com on this site, to help the driver understand which roads and highways have backups, accidents, roadwork on them. Google.com would be the next on this site. The family going on the trip can look up the states that they are driving through – they can look up the history, points of interest, lodging, and local restaurants. I would finally have youtube on this mashup site, so that the family can look up travel videos about their destination and what they can do there.
February 18, 2008 at 1:43 am
I think that this would be a great mash-up, but I think that it would be even better to have this on a GPS. Can you image if you are driving down the road and then your gps says suggested route because of traffic. The technology may not be their yet though.
February 19, 2008 at 12:46 am
That sounds pretty cool, Mapquest really is missing out on a lot. I always thought they needed a feature where u could highlight a path on roads and calculate the distance because their mileage tracker only covers the direct path, but sometimes you don’t always take that. Maybe I’m just nuts. The videos would be cool too, might help tourism to other places.