First, great work! You have a nice site, at least that is my impression from the tour. The sales pitch of keeping everything in one place and sharing it with friends who may be meeting us along the way is great.
My wife and I are planning a trip around the world. It's been pretty complicated so far. Just getting that amount of air travel figured out has been difficult (mainly because the Star Alliance RTW tool appears to have a recursion depth of 1...). We're just now working on booking places to stay, tours to take, shoehorning various experiences and adventures into the spaces between flights.
Convince me to use your site. What significant advantage will it have over a spreadsheet full of travel plans? Over a blog with pictures and a google maps widget? What does "semantically meaningful" mean to me as a traveler? Do you mix in current data (travel warnings, visa requirements, etc.) with my plans so they are relevant at later dates?
We have done a lot of traveling ourselves, and the original inspiration for the site was to package all the various spreadsheets, notes, and disjoint sites that we've used during the planning.
Are we at the point where we can replace all of that? Not yet. But we are getting there, and using the site gives you automatic access to all the tools that are coming online the next little while.
You have a _nice_ place (no nasty ads) to store all the information related to your trip, in a way that you'll enjoy in the future (in fact, you will have access to some really cool stuff that we have planned almost for free as you'll have all the relevant information in one place). So the more we develop the site, the more you'll get out of your data without you having to do anything additionally.
Now, you seem like a sophisticated user, and probably you'll still need your spreadsheets. But we can certainly use feedback from users like you in terms of features that would help you ditch those spreadsheets.
So indeed, short term plans are to mix in the current data with your plans. Give you customized documentation based on your itinerary. Make it easier for you to search the best travel rates (or even doing it automagically for you).
My wife and I are planning a trip around the world. It's been pretty complicated so far. Just getting that amount of air travel figured out has been difficult (mainly because the Star Alliance RTW tool appears to have a recursion depth of 1...). We're just now working on booking places to stay, tours to take, shoehorning various experiences and adventures into the spaces between flights.
Convince me to use your site. What significant advantage will it have over a spreadsheet full of travel plans? Over a blog with pictures and a google maps widget? What does "semantically meaningful" mean to me as a traveler? Do you mix in current data (travel warnings, visa requirements, etc.) with my plans so they are relevant at later dates?