Meet Halfway With Happy Median

by Willy Volk on

The other day, we mentioned a.placebetween.us, a site dedicated to helping people find a meeting place that’s half-way between them. Gadling reader rtgman pointed us to another service, which does something similar, but which slightly different.

Happy Median lets users enter up to 4 addresses, and it’ll pinpoint several convenient locations in which you can meet. For example, if I want to meet my friend from Atlanta half-way, I enter our zip codes, and I get the following table. If I hover over the car icon, I can see how many miles each of us has to drive; clicking on the magnifying glass opens up a map; and by using the drop-down menu, I can get details concerning area restaurants, fine dining, diners, coffee, nightlife, and lodging.
Though Happy Median doesn’t offer the drag-n-drop repositioning that a.placebetween.us does, it offers slightly more options for the user. Pretty cool.

Tubemap Wallets Are A Wallet AND A Map

by Willy Volk on

When you first see the Tubemap wallet, you’ll nod your head and mutter, “Of course! Why didn’t I think of that?” So simple it’s brilliant, a Tubemap wallet is an “ordinary” black leather wallet that folds open to reveal a printed London Underground map inside. Not heading to London? Tubemap also makes wallets for the New York subway.

At £35 ($69), the Tubemap seems a little pricey, but if you’re the kind of person who like traveling light, you’ll gladly pay for dual-purpose gear. With space for loads of cash and 8 cards, this will be one wallet you’ll really cry over if it gets snatched.

Meet Halfway With a.placebetween.us

by Willy Volk on

My friend lives in Atlanta; I live in South Florida. We’d like to meet at some half-way point for a weekend. But where to meet?

a.placebetween.us allows users to enter two addresses and the kind of place you’d like to meet (the site defaults to “coffee”). Thereafter, the site indicates the half-way point with a green marker and shows you nearby places that correspond with your meeting point. For example, this map shows where would would meet if we wanted ice cream.

While I think ice cream in Macclenny, Florida sounds nice, I think I’d rather meet nearer the ocean. Happily, a.placebetween.us allows users to drag the green marker to a new central-ish location — nearer to St. Augustine, for example — and it still gives suggestions. Very cool!

[VIa Neatorama]

Flight Memory

by Willy Volk on

Flight Memory is a geeky but fun way to let you keep track of where you’ve flown. After inputing your data, Flight Memory will tell you your total time in the air, distance flown, and even keep track of aircraft types and airlines.
However, the really cool part of the service is that Flight Memory will produce a nifty looking map of your travels.


Useful for travel bloggers, general travelers, business travelers, pilots, and some stalkers, Flight Memory will even produce a high-quality poster documenting your RTW trip. What a cool way to visualize the trips you’ve taken! Want to be super-cool? Plot out your travels in advance, so the lines on your Flight Memory map spells out your name!

[Via MeFi]

View a World of Photos with Flickrvision

by Justin Glow on

Flickrvision is a simple website that combines the power of Google Maps with the worldwide usage of photo hosting website Flickr.com.

Flickrvision pulls newly-added photos from Flickr and places them at the location in which they were taken onto a map in real time. This allows you to sit back and watch the map populate itself with images taken from all over the world — and it’s quite addicting!

The website is in beta, so there may be a few bugs yet to work out. However, creator Dave Troy (who also made the popular Twittervision) says he recently made some tweaks to decrease the time it takes to load an image. Awesome.