Entries about mapping

A recent question in the forums has raised the hot topic of travel map size.

Not usually ones for a travel brag, we thought we would take a quick peek inside the collective Travel Stats of the twenty most travelled members (by distance) and came up with some interesting statistics. Here are the ones we thought you'd like:

• The average number of trips taken was 125.3. That's a lot of airport check-ins!

Photo: jackcheng

• Together they have mapped trips to 206 countries and states.

• Our most travelled member by distance covered is ThoiryK with a whopping 3,504,676 km!! Phew!

ThoiryK's travel map

• The most popular countries were the United Kingdom and United States of America. Followed closely by China, France, Germany, and the Netherlands.

• marcwiz is the only one to map trips to both Antarctica and Greenland.

The total distance travelled by all twenty members is roughly equivalent to 97.6 trips to the moon!

Want to see your own travel stats?

Simply make sure you've mapped a trip on Travellerspoint and head to your custom stats link.
Eg. http://www.travellerspoint.com/stats/username/. View your statistics for all travel or filter results for individual year or trip stats.

You can then brag to your friends and family via the social buttons! If you want to, of course.

Happy mapping!

A few weeks ago Peter put together a cool new feature and we're excited to formally introduced it now...

Travel Stats is a neat way to visualise all your mapped trips on Travellerspoint. The tool extracts your trip data and presents it in a one-page infographic.

For example, here are Peter's stats:

If you enter the mode of transport and date while mapping a trip, more detail will be shown:

To insert the stats on your Travellerspoint blog or externally-hosted site, simply click the 'Embed this!' link in the top right-hand corner:

And now for the fun part - collective stats from the TP community!

• 70,949 users have created trips with a total of 234,892 trips mapped so far
• The total kilometers to date is: 1,594,754,638 (over a billion) - this incidentally is 4,392 one-way trips to the moon
• The average stops per trip is 6.07
• The most popular modes of transport in order are (numbers are total number of stops):

- 108976 Airplane
- 57515 Car
- 54802 Bus
- 39124 Train
- 16884 Boat
- 2299 Foot
- 1698 Bicycle
- 1737 Motorbike
- 229 Animal

To get started, simply make sure you've mapped a trip on Travellerspoint before and head to your custom stats link. E.g. http://www.travellerspoint.com/stats/username/

You can then choose to share them with your friends and family via the social buttons.

Happy travels!