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Stamped – Travel Map Tracker (Explore the World and Show Off Them)

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2 pointsjeffcyw5 comments

Remember the old days where our passport is full with stamps when we travel and passing through custom? With everything going digital these days, it gets less common now and I feels like we are missing out some of these memories collection.

With this in mind, I have recently built a travel tracker that allows you to stamp on the countries/location that you've been to. And most importantly, it requires GPS verification in order for you to stamp, so all the record will be genuine. Ultimately, I would love to have travellers to be able to show off where they have been to genuinely and no cheating.

Would love to hear all of your feedback on the app!

Can people add old trips to their map? Otherwise, this is more of a "where I took my phone since installing this app", not a full journal of lifetime travel. I'd also recommend offering a native or web app, so people who have collected photos over the years can upload them from a variety of devices, not just their phone.

I know that would conflict with your idea of a trip being "genuine", but that honestly seems like a silly feature to me. I'd love a journal/photo album organized by location and time, but having some app act as an authority to whether or not I'm lying about my travel? That simply doesn't seem important.

And like the travelling garden gnome, it shows where your phone has been. Good idea though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_gnome

Ah, yes, a former co-worker was one of the guys who stole a gnome for some travel and made national news with it in the 90s. Amusing anecdotes, to be sure.

Thanks for your feedback Dave. Yeah this is definitely something I have been comtemplating whether it should be like genuine or a record free for anyone to add their old trips. I'll have a think about this and maybe we will still allow user to add their old trips but just in a different structure/format. Thanks for your feedback!

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