Author: admin

who can see my maps?

There are three levels of visibility for your maps:

  1. Public: Your map will be visible to anyone on the Tripline site, and the map will be indexed by search engines.
  2. Friends: Your map will be visible only those people who are your Tripline friends and to people you’ve added to the map as travelers or followers. The map will not show up in Tripline search results and will not be indexed by search engines.
  3. Private: Your map will be visible only to people you’ve added to the map as travelers or followers. The map will not show up in Tripline search results and will not be indexed by search engines

In order to change visibility, go to the map page, click [Edit Map] and change the visibility options on the right side of the screen.

why is sharing disabled on one of my maps?

We disable sharing links on the map page for maps that you specify visibility : private or visibility : friends.  We also hide the embed code for these maps. While outside people couldn’t see these maps anyway, we wouldn’t want you to inadvertently post links that would just bring people to an error page – you’d have a lot of  explainin’ to do.  So we hide the buttons.

Note that for maps with visibility : friends, even if you have connected your Tripline account to Facebook, for privacy purposes on Tripline, your “friends” are your Tripline friends. So be sure to get your Facebook friends to connect to Tripline. When they do, they’ll be added as your Tripline friend automatically and will then be able to see your maps with visibility : friends.

What is a BETA?

Calling a website “BETA” means that it’s an early version that may still have glitches here and there.  We’ve done our best to find and fix as many as we can, but as a Tripline Beta user, you may still find bugs, and certain features may not work as expected…especially on older browsers.

If you find a problem with the site, please let us know.  Here’s a link to a contact form: http://help.tripline.net/contact-support

Thanks.

what are characters?

Characters are a unique feature that allows you to add  famous or fictional people to  your trips. Say you’re interested in the life of Abraham Lincoln and you wanted to plot out the course of his funeral train as it traveled back to Illinois to lay him to rest. You can create a character for “Abraham Lincoln” and add him to your trip detailing the train’s journey. Using characters will build up a library of trips associated with these character which other users can search through if they are interested in that person.

NOTE: Before you create a new character, be sure to check if one exists already by typing the name in the existing characters box.