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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.

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'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 a tripit.com user. I'd love you to be able to import the trips in Tripit to my Dopplr profile. Tripit and Dopplr do different things - and do them well. I reckon you should get together !

TripIt seems much easier to use. One simply forwards travel confirmations to tripit and the trip is created. "Busy Business Travelers" like myself aren't much inclined to enter a bunch of stuff by hand.

Given that you're both working in the new travel space, but doing different yet overlapping things, I think there's huge potential in hooking your two services together, and some obvious entry points -- particularly around reporting on a new trip. It would be great if, as part of forwarding something to TripIt via plans@tripit.com, it would just automagically show up as a trip I'm taking in Dopplr.

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.

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

Just after FOWA, I remember seeing - on MattB's trips page - a number of links to upcoming.org events. I'm guessing the code is already there to link a trip to an event (because I saw the upcoming.org logo) so it might just be a case of putting the end-user UI in place.

Is there a publicly-available way of tagging a trip with upcoming.org events?

Could you make it publicly-available? :o)

(Please?)

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.

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.

Dopplr thinks everything happens at midnight GMT. One way of handling the time of update without having to manage all travel details as Tripit does would be to allow the flights to be associated with the trip. You'd need to check flight arrival information, but that is on the internet, assume I make the flight.

I could add my outbound and inbound flights and then Dopplr would be able to check when I've arrived in my stated location and tell Fire Eagle the right information. Rather than pretend that at midnight I instantly move 3500 miles west =)

How about incorporating weather forecasts from somewhere like wunderground.com so that we can see what the local conditions are like in places we are due to travel to - and thus pack weather-correct clothing accordingly...?

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?

What I'd like to do via dopplr:

-manage personal travel (even book it.. please save me from the interfaces of the travel sites) + FFMiles (as you can personal finances via mint.com)

-not only know my carbon footprint but be able to plant trees to directly offset it.

I know it's not the most pleasant feature for users (showing them their contribution to destruction of our planet.) I think it would go a long way in raising self awareness.

Working for a consulting firm, most of my colleagues and I travel an immense amount. Certainly something like Dopplr is very useful in this line of work.

What would be great would be the ability to import iCal information or any other method of easing the import/update process.

BTW I'm out of invites.. would love to give out more. Hint hint. =)

It would be great if there was the option to set up tracking for a certain set of users to alert if they are going to be in the same city via email or SMS as the date approaches without having to go to the website to pull this information.

It would be a nice feature to show the local time wherever somebody is right now. Especially people traveling/being abroad. It's really easy to implement and would be beneficial to me, that I don't have to look up what time it is when calling my dopplr friends in Germany or somewhere else in the world.