Travel guide and book

litost says on Dec 8, 2006, 06:22:

Awesome initiative Peter, I hope to contribute with some of my own experience even though I'm not in Colombia now and it's been a couple of years since I've done serious travelling there. I just hope that the spirit of this forum is respected and people stick to the subject, unlike some of the nonsense that goes on in others.

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robcarter says on Dec 8, 2006, 07:19:

one problem i think on a lot of things your going to have very conflicting views and opinions, so its going to be hard to get a clear idea about many things...

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gato-bandido says on Dec 8, 2006, 07:28:

old guides Peter, as you know there are lots of old travel guides and trip reports all over your site. They are not exactly up to date, but a lot of the stuff still applies today. Is there a way to move them to the Travel Guides section? For starters I would like to move my report about the trip to the Amazon in 2003 over, and then I may help find and move other trip reports.

As for conflicting views and opinions, just include them all and let people decide for themselves.

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litost says on Dec 8, 2006, 07:44:

Precisely because there are bound to be conflicting views and opinions, an emphasis should be made on giving FACTS and useful TRAVEL INFORMATION about places. Naturally people will also want to give their impressions and personal opinion about a place, and I think that's OK, it just shouldn't turn into a boxing ring or get way off-topic like on the FTZ.

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aztec says on Dec 8, 2006, 08:17:

Know very little about PC's... ...and publishing but could these guides be produced in the form of Portable Document Format (PDF) files so we could simply download them for our library?

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Peter (Moderator) says on Dec 8, 2006, 13:49:

So to answer a few questions:

- put the URL of your old travel guides in the comments and I'll move them over.

- Yes, a focus on facts (like the hostel guide: I researched every single hostel, all prices and everything is up to date), and the subjective stuff people can decide for themselves.

- PDF: yes, working on that. I'm also planning to provide these guides in the form of an actual book you can order online (for relatively cheap) and carry with you :)

Yey!

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Peter (Moderator) says on Dec 8, 2006, 16:06:

I wish I could, I'll check it out.

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Peter (Moderator) says on Dec 8, 2006, 16:11:

I found your article (great!) but can't move it to the forum - software doesn't let me. I'll be writing new software myself to power this site and then we can do what we want.. but that might be a few months off :) I'll do my best. But rest assured that at some point within say 4 months we should be able to do that.

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andresumana says on Dec 8, 2006, 16:24:

if you can change some blog rules for that reports it will be great and also add a pdf converter to the core
we have the same goals i hope we can join efforts in this touristic promotion

http://www.colombia4you.com

http://www.colombia4you.com

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webjacks says on Dec 8, 2006, 16:25:

Travel Guides and Books (PDF) I am planning to be back in Colombia soon (Manizales), I would be happy to contribute...

I have not had a chance to try this software yet, but it looks interesting. You might be able to use it to create PDF files (and it's free to use).

http://www.cutepdf.com/

-Thomas

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www.webjacks.us/htmls/colombia.html
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Peter (Moderator) says on Dec 8, 2006, 16:41:

Could you repost that Amazon report in the forum? Sorry, but until I get the software fixed (it'll be a priority!) we'll have to handle things like this..

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webjacks says on Dec 8, 2006, 18:03:

PDF Versions of Travel Guides If you wanted to post PDF versions of travel guides, you might try uploading them to someones web space, then just posting a link to them within a message. ¿Something like this?

Just a suggestion... -Thomas -------------------------------------------------- www.webjacks.us/htmls/colombia.html --------------------------------------------------

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gato-bandido says on Dec 11, 2006, 06:05:

Peter Forget about writing web management software from scratch, it's many man years of work, not months for sure. Drupal is GPL, why not just change it the way you need it?

I'll repost the trip report if you can't move it over. I'll need to repost the photos too, since they seem to be gone.

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