topics in Dopplr

Please support open jaw trips. Let us create arbitrary multi-segment trips with undefined waypoints and waydates. This also lets us insert and edit arbitrary and ad-hoc trip segments. Sometimes we don't know in advance everywhere a trip can take us.

Dopplr needs a way to note trips where you are traveling WITH other people such as friends, coworkers, and especially spouses. Right now, people can see if these same people are going to be at the same place at the same time - this isn't quite the same thing.

When viewing a friend's trips (particularly my spouse's) I'd like to be able to click "I'm going on this trip too" and have it automatically be added to my own trips. Would save duplicate work.

Please support nested trips in your schema. Sometimes the first and enclosing trip serves as a stage for another trip. Be smart and let trips launch yet more trips. Let the schema, calendar, and tools support such itineraries (and not close out all trips when the first one ends).

I've been planning out a 3-week trip at http://www.dopplr.com/traveller/david... , and the order of places is getting mixed up. (There's a combination of trains, planes and automobiles).

I don't think that hour-by-hour projections are necessary or productive, but it might be helpful to at least have an option to break down the day by morning, afternoon and evening. When I leave a hotel in one city in the morning, have a meeting in the afternoon, and then check into another hotel in the afternoon, this would at least cause the ordering of the stops on the profile to be correct. (I don't really want people to geolocate me, but I've already had associates note that I'm in town, and suggest we get together).

I'm probably using Dopplr slightly differently to all those international jet-setters, I'm basically recording my day trips/weekend breaks out of London. I think it would be quite neat if there optionally was a "current weather" single icon appended on to the end of each of my trips in the trip list. It would be cool seeing the "sun" icon next to my impending summer holiday to some tropical destination, even if all my mundane trips before then to wetter climes have cloud symbols after them...

Maybe this is something best served by a Dopplr+Weather mashup?

Roadtrips would be a nice addition with at least departure and arrival locations and dates. Intermediary stops could be a nice feature.

There are 2 types of destination which Dopplr can't handle, but which it should.

1. states, countries or regions. If I am on a trip with multiple destinations (or unknown or secret destinations) within a country, state or region I should be able to simply say that I am going to (for instance) "Portugal" or to "California" for a period of time. I should not be required to enter specific destinations, if I don't want to do that.

2. destinations not in your atlas. Dopplr doesn't know about every place in the world, and it never can, so please let me enter my own destination. I should be able to say I am going "on holidays" or "to the farm" or just "offline, dammit!" - if I want to do that.

Thanks for a great service.

I'd like to see Notes on Trips exposed more. When I look at a friend's planned trips for the next six months, they may have 3 or 4 cities listed, and almost always there is 1 Note for each, describing what the trip is for, made by the user taking the trip.

Figuring out why my friend is going to be in my town and three other towns takes an awful lot of clicking, then clicking back, then more clicking just to see a single sentence that is most often like "visiting family" or "attending the $foo Conference". I'm specifically asking about adding information to a dopplr.com/traveller/$username page. I like to quickly scan that page for friends (it's my main interface to the entire site, surfing friends' profile pages) and know why they're going to be in town in a single glance.

Certainly, it'd be easy to just surface those short descriptions (even just the first 200 characters would be enough) on a user's home page of Trips, no? Basically if the first Note is by the same author as the Trip, then show the first x characters on their main user page along with the Trip information.

If promoting the first Note up on a user's page is too much to ask, I notice that "Notes" are used like comments in similar systems and maybe what I'm asking for is instead a standalone "trip description" field that is separate from Notes that could be surfaced for easy scanning of where and when (this would add Why) my friends will be traveling.

Dopplr needs to accept travel confirmation emails as a mechanism for setting my location then I will be able to use Dopplr fully. I travel a lot and don't the little spare time to update sites manually. Plus I forget :P

With the site of one of Dopplr's competition (which solves the same problem Dopplr is trying to solve) I simply forward my airline confirmation or hotel confirmation to an email address and the competitive site updates my itinerary with date and location.

Not only does that make it easier to update said competitive site, but the site also has a finer granularity of where I am staying and where I will be in an airport too (for airport cross-overs). Two people being in New York or Shanghai at the same time is academic if they are staying in opposite parts of town.

I'm even less unlikely to add this level of detail by hand but it can be extracted from the emails automatically.

Finally, setting GMail to auto-forward regular confirmation emails (I fly to LA on United most weeks) means my travel schedule is maintained at zero day-to-day involvement by me. It's head-and-shoulders above Dopplr in that regard.