Travel Blog

Travel Blog Free App

Rated 3.92/5 (50) —  Free Android application by Barkside Apps

About Travel Blog

Travel Blog is a FREE, open-sourced, advert-free, Android application. It is a light-weight travel logger perfect for any traveller.

It can:
• Log your location from GPS, Wifi or cell-id (tells you how accurate the fix is).
• Low battery usage, with configurable timeouts.
• Can manually edit location by dragging marker on a map.
• Attach a name and description with current timestamp.
• Log multiple trips.
• Edit or delete old posts.
• Save as KML file to SD card:
• KML file can then be Sent via email, or anything else you have installed like Dropbox.
• KML files can be imported to Google Earth and other similar applications.
• Time-stamp of each post saved so Google Earth animations and timelines can be used.
• View trip on Classic Google Maps.
• Support widgets to open New Post of multiple trips.
• Share a KML file from another app to this one.

It is not a battery hogger as it doesn't continually log your location, perfect for travelling in remote parts of the world, or long periods away from power. It also doesn't need internet (unless you want to view trip in google maps, or send it via email etc), perfect for travel abroad where data roaming costs plenty.

Why you need Travel Blog?

There are many uses of Travel Blog. Whenever you want to record your location manually (only record the interesting bits), this is the app for the job! You can then look at your trips directly on your phone, or share them with others.

If, like me, you like to use all the free technology available to you, here is a more involved use case example:

You are going on a long holiday abroad. You have your Android phone with you, but know the battery doesn't last long, and you can't afford the data roaming charges. You would like to record where you went or keep your family and friends abreast of your travels. So you can set up your own travel blog on Blogger. You can also set up your own Dropbox account which is online place to store files. By now your using the Travel Blog app, and are recording your location (say your hotel, favourite beach, day trip to a city, weekend trip to the mountains etc etc). You come across Wifi access in your hotel, cafe or train - now you can send your Travel Blog trip file to Dropbox. If you have no Wifi access, you decide to plug your phone into a PC at the local cyber cafe, and transfer the file manually to the PC, and from there to Dropbox.

Now before you went away, you set your up your blog website with a link to the Google Maps search of you Dropbox Travel Blog file: In Dropbox, copy the link to your KML file by going to share... Now in Google Maps (Classic or My Maps), enter this copied link into the Search Maps box and hit enter. This is your map, and you can now share this map. Goto Link, and either embed the HTML into your Blog website, or just share the link in emails, or on your blog website.

As long as you also overwrite the same file in Dropbox with your updated Travel Blog trip, your Blog website will always be up-to-date, and won't need changing each time to point to a new file. Genius!

WE HAVE NOW GONE OPEN-SOURCED! TAKE PART IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADDITIONAL FEATURES! See http://code.google.com/p/travel-blog-android/

Contributions so far from Avinash Chopde - Thanks for your work!

Any problems or suggestions, please see our open-source pages at http://code.google.com/p/travel-blog-android/ and our google groups mailing list at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/travel-blog-android

How to Download / Install

Download and install Travel Blog version 2.2.1 on your Android device!
Downloaded 10,000+ times, content rating: Not rated
Android package: com.barkside.travellocblog, download Travel Blog.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
App widgets can be installed on the home screen to jump to the New Post editing screen.
Multiple widgets can be installed, each widget can point to a different trip file.
Importing capability added. Other Android applications can now send .kml files to this app.
Rename Trip menu command added.
Bug fixes and minor UI tweaks.
Thanks Avinash Chopde for all these latest contributions!
More downloads  Travel Blog reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
Version update Travel Blog was updated to version 2.2.1
Version update Travel Blog was updated to version 2.0.1
More downloads  Travel Blog reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads

What are users saying about Travel Blog

R70%
by R####:

I like what this app tries to do, especially since it makes a map, but it lacks a way to enter GPS coordinates for entries that were missed. (Sometimes I forget to make an entry until I've already left a place). Also, it would be nice to be able to draw the lines by train route rather than "the way the crow flies", but that might be technically challenging to implement.

Z70%
by Z####:

Location is not accurate

Z70%
by Z####:

Twice my trip has been deleted on me half way through. Waste of time. Good thing I wrote it down longhand.

Z70%
by Z####:

Just like Blogger except will map your trip (handy). But no photos! If send to Blogger Ap worked right we could attach photos to posts there, but send fails. Also, if could enter a manual address we could use to make our own travel guide .

Z70%
by Z####:

I like this app...but can't share it to Facebook even though it says you can. Emailing doesnt do anything either. Suggestions would be to have folders to keep the trips in..so hiu can have multiple trips in multiply folders.

Z70%
by Z####:

Just the basics & does what it says on the tin! Uses GPS so no data required when traveling in remote places... Love it thanks for not over engineering something, keeping it simple is the key :-) thanks again

Z70%
by Z####:

No pictures? Even blogger app does that.

B70%
by B####:

Simple and effective

Z70%
by Z####:

Briliantly simple app which does what it says perfectly. Instructions for Dropbox sharing of KML are inspired. Could add photo support?

Z70%
by Z####:

Fantastic - a simple app that's does one simple thing well.

H70%
by H####:

This works really well.Will use it on my backpacking trip in January!

A70%
by A####:

GBca

K70%
by K####:

Location is not accurate

K70%
by K####:

Twice my trip has been deleted on me half way through. Waste of time. Good thing I wrote it down longhand.

K70%
by K####:

I like this app...but can't share it to Facebook even though it says you can. Emailing doesnt do anything either. Suggestions would be to have folders to keep the trips in..so hiu can have multiple trips in multiply folders.

K70%
by K####:

Just like Blogger except will map your trip (handy). But no photos! If send to Blogger Ap worked right we could attach photos to posts there, but send fails. Also, if could enter a manual address we could use to make our own travel guide .

K70%
by K####:

Just the basics & does what it says on the tin! Uses GPS so no data required when traveling in remote places... Love it thanks for not over engineering something, keeping it simple is the key :-) thanks again

K70%
by K####:

No pictures? Even blogger app does that.

X70%
by X####:

Simple and effective

K70%
by K####:

Briliantly simple app which does what it says perfectly. Instructions for Dropbox sharing of KML are inspired. Could add photo support?

K70%
by K####:

Fantastic - a simple app that's does one simple thing well.

C70%
by C####:

This works really well.Will use it on my backpacking trip in January!

D70%
by D####:

GBca


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