Comments on: Adding multi-stop trips

By: Clare Gossage

Clare Gossage — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:20:19 +0000

Is the ‘add another stop’ function working now (it isn’t on my browser)

By: Roland Hesz

Roland Hesz — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:39:07 +0000

Any chance that the stops don’t make me “go home” and back?
Maybe in the next release?

By: Duncan Sample

Duncan Sample — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:01:41 +0000

I too would like to see ‘boat’ added as a mode of transportation.

Is there a way to keep all of the ‘hops’ of a multi-stop trip on one page? I’m going on a road trip this week and wanted to put all the destinations into one trip (so there would also need to be a way to add an extra destination to an existing multi-stop trip) and also have all of the photos I take alongside the complete trip (rather than for each leg of the trip).

By: peter honeyman

peter honeyman — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:08:04 +0000

love it! \(^_^)/

By: Dan Birchall

Dan Birchall — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:08:56 +0000

Oh, gotta add… your wanna-be-competitors Placely *have* 1-minute granularity. With timezones. (Although I’m unconvinced that they’ve ever heard of daylight savings time…) You’ve clearly got them beat in terms of userbase size and some other things, but this is a feature you need. :)

By: Dan Birchall

Dan Birchall — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:54:22 +0000

Unfortunately, your avowed dislike for violations of the space-time continuum is meaningless, given that Dopplr can’t distinguish anything more granular than a day.

For example, I told Dopplr that I am currently in Dundee, Scotland, and that on 21 June, I shall travel by train to Inverkeithing, then by auto (actually bus) to Turnhouse, then by plane to Newark, then by train to Trenton (actually Hamilton), and by auto to Mount Holly (actually Hainesport).

Similarly, I told Dopplr that on 5 July, I shall travel by auto to Newark, by plane to Minneapolis, by plane to Honolulu, and by plane to Hilo.

Even though I entered all those things in that order, Dopplr got confoozled and the “map” view has me ricocheting back and forth across the Atlantic a few times on the 21st, and across the US and eastern Pacific a few times on the 5th.

What’s that you say? I’m giving Dopplr too much granularity? I shouldn’t tell it about individual airports where I might only spend a couple hours? Well, I’m taking a train across the country here, all the way to Glasgow, in a couple days. For a couple hours. Then back again. Why? For lunch with a friend and former colleague. And if I’m in an airport for a couple hours, it’s not unreasonable for me to run into someone I know.

This is supposed to be a site for frequent international travelers, right? :) Let me specify times – and teach it what time zone everything is in – and you’ll have something useful that doesn’t scribble all over the map meaninglessly trying to keep up with me. ;)

By: Dan Gillmor

Dan Gillmor — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:10:16 +0000

You have all raised some excellent issues/questions. We definitely agree that the multiple-stop feature needs improvement, but wanted to make it available as quickly as possible so that people could get started with it. I’ll get some answers to specific questions and post them soon.

By: Rhino

Rhino — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:05:29 +0000

Hi developpers,

I too came back to DOPPLR for the multi-trip feature and see how the carbon footprint calculator would work. I’m a bit disappointed though that the multi-trip feature is not up to its best and agree with all the comments above. My question is: When can you fix this?

By: Vallejo

Vallejo — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:56:26 +0000

It would be good if you were able to add a stop while editing an existing trip, which currently doesn’t seem to be possible.

By: Nick Palevsky

Nick Palevsky — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:34:45 +0000

Curiouser and curiouser. . .

Although I can see my Dopplr widget on my profile in FB, my friend Carolyn says that she can’t:

> strange! i don’t see it on yours at all — but i see mine on my profile, and i
> see david’s on his… hmm.
>
> ~ on 29/05/2008 01:17 Nick Palevsky typed…
>> The widget still shows up on my profile (gifs gone in the cutting and
>> pasting):
>>
>>
>>> Nick is in Singapore until June 4th and has planned a trip to Tokyo in June.
>>>
>>> + Add a trip
>>>
>>> Last updated
>>
>> I’ll try posting a comment. . .
>>
>> On 5/29/08 1:06 PM, “Carolyn Anhalt” wrote:
>>
>>> yeah there’s definitely some roughness to the multi-leg trip feature. what i
>>> noticed first off was that it actually saves the trips as individual trips
>>> but
>>> copies the same notes to each one. I have my home as italy in fb and oakland
>>> in
>>> dopplr, and it seems to show all my upcoming trips… although the next few
>>> weren’t created multi-leg. i’m finding just creating nested trips works
>>> better,
>>> e.g., I did Borgo a Mozzano 1 – 8 June and Lucca 3 – 7 June. And if you
>>> create
>>> your next trip to start the last day of the previous trip, it all works
>>> quite
>>> smoothly.
>>>
>>> I don’t see any of your dopplr trips in FB — did you remove the widget?