Festival Map: Map your campsites and find your friends before you go

[ampersand]

sound absolutely brilliant.

hopefully it works in practice

[t8yman]

only drawback is, reception at festivals is usually balls, especially 3G. and I know a lot of people leave their smartphones at home and take shitty alternatives due to the large amount of thievery.

sound interesting, just sayin....

[markeee]

yea sounds neat, i dont know how comfortable id feel taking a decent smartphone tyo glasto though

worried about it being stolen or me losing it/breaking it!

[MrZigster]

I can see it now.

"Sorry, you can't camp here. We arranged to camp here on facebook, so I'm saving these dozens of spots for my mates".

Or

"But I booked this space on facebook. What do you mean you're not on facebook?".

[t8yman]

I can see it now.

"Sorry, you can't camp here. We arranged to camp here on facebook, so I'm saving these dozens of spots for my mates".

Or

"But I booked this space on facebook. What do you mean you're not on facebook?".

[MrZigster]

Hmm, maybe I read too much into the phrase "before they go" in the introductory paragraph.

Edit: & You're absolutely right that that is not how it works though. It would never work like that and that was my sort of point.

Edited February 20, 2011 by MrZigster

[rabid]

The idea is pre-gaming; to get involved before you go. How often have your separate group of mates said "Yea we're going... not sure where we're going to camp though." Why not get all those people involved in one mass campsite? The more the merrier.

[pehaw]

We do. It's a handy app that's been around for years. It's called efestivals.

[ampersand]

Precisely.

OP - I don't really want to piss on your chips but I can't see the point of this. Am I missing something?

[pehaw]

you're camped in kidney mead. your mates camped at the other side of glastonbury. you both 'plot' where you've camped on this map and you can see where each other are camped easily on the map. without giving shitty directions or 'im near this flag and a yellow tent'

would need to see it in practice but seems a cool idea if all parties use it.

[Paul ™]

So it's a Glasto-specific cut-down version of Latitude?

[saratink]

It's a good idea, but soo many people leave their tidy phones at home instead of risking getting it lost or stolen.

[pehaw]

Yeah and Google Latitude is a perfectly good way to do this already

[ampersand]

Latitude is great - handy to keep an eye on where my kids are too!

[Paul ™]

but nah, does latitude have the glastonbury festival site marked out? i know it's 6 of one, but it's handier if it's got pyramid stage listed and brothers bar etc. i'm bad enough knowing how to work out t in the park layout from a blank aerial of the site, let alone glastonbury.

[ampersand]

Yeah you could do that, as Latitude is part of Google Maps so you can create a user map then add that on as a layer in Latitude.

Infact with Latitude, you can basically stalk someone as you can 'check in' places (for example Brothers Bar) so would make it easy to meet people etc.

In the admin panel on Latitude, you can even see stats for where you have been, such as work, trips away, flights, time at home etc.. loads of information available (providing you allow your phone to send the data)

[Paul ™]

well then

[ampersand]

Your avatar is scary

[pehaw]

look everyone, oaf is back