FoundLocally Launches “Phase One” Of Improved Transcanadahighway.com
Travel Website
Released
on: October 7, 2009, 5:09 am
Author: FoundLocally.com
Media Inc
Industry: Travel
Calgary,
AB Canada, October 7, 2009 -- FoundLocally.com
Media Inc. has just released “Phase One” of a
new version of their popular TransCanadaHighway.com
website. TranscanadaHighway.com is a nine year old website which
documents many details of travel along Canada’s 7,821 km
(4,860 mi.) long national highway, which connects St John’s,
Newfoundland & Labrador with Victoria, British Columbia.
The new version of the website
includes a number of useful innovations:
1) Select itinerary segments using an “iTunes” style
Map Chooser interface
2) Itinerary segments include information about their history,
underway construction, and bicycle-friendly route and detours,
as well as elevation charts.
3) The mapping integration with Google Maps has improved to include
segment maps and alternate routes on both cross-country and urban
segments.
4) The itineraries have databased over 3500 points --including
streets, highways, rivers, lakes, rest stops-- along the highway.
Phase One provides details & links for 5,000 features along
the western half of the highway (between Victoria, BC and Sault
Ste Marie, Ontario). These include hotels, campgrounds, national
parks, provincial parks, First Nations, museums, attractions,
family amusements, rivers, lakes and mountains.
5) Because of the newly available detail, users can filter for
just those features they are interested in, skipping the others.
They can also toggle direction of travel, and the units of measurement
for distance (km/mi) and elevation ( ft/m) to create personalized
custom itineraries.
6) Users (and tourism operators ) can post additional comments
to any point along the itinerary, to ensure the site’s detail
improves and is kept timely.
These
changes make the site even more useful for cross-Canada cyclists,
European visitors, families travelling across Canada, and students
& teachers researching Social Studies projects.
TransCanadaHighway.com
also has added Twitter
feeds and launched a Facebook
group to further improve interaction with travellers. Both
will track construction issues/closures and winter weather alerts
and closures.
About
FoundLocally.com
FoundLocally.com Media Inc.
is a Calgary-based company that has created 30 community information
portals across Canada, which now receive about a million monthly
visitors. It also runs TransCanadaHighway.com
(about travel along the world’s longest highway), and MovingInCanada.com
(about relocations & real estate). The company was featured
in a 2007 Alberta Venture magazine article “Battle of the
Digital Directories”. The FoundLocally web sites are represented
nationally by 24/7 Canada,
the nation’s largest interactive ad agency.
Contact Details: For more information contact
Mark Ruthenberg, FoundLocally’s General Manager at (403)
245-2194 or by email at mark@FoundLocally.com
or Tanya Iliakis, Account Executive, 24/7 RealMedia Inc. 416-966-2542
x263 or by e-mail at tanya.iliakis@247Canada.com