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Outdoor destination information
The staff at Kynd Outdoors recognizes that the most important aspect of our site is delivering useful information on outdoor destinations.
Kynd Outdoors offers you the most valuable outdoor destination information you can find online. Kynd Outdoors offers all the same (and then some) social functionality you expect from other community sites but again, our primary focus is useful outdoor destination information.
Here's just a few reasons why Kynd Outdoors is great:
Condition reports, interactive destination maps, destination descriptions, destination pictures, businesses
that service the destinations you love.
There is so much more to discover on kyndoutdoors.com and the essentials are all on the site for you... all for FREE!
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Kynd Outdoors now logs GPX trips!
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The Kynd Outdoors staff has received many requests to allow .gpx files in the trip report form. So we added it!
Kynd Outdoors parses the .gpx files from handhelds including... all Garmin nüvi, eTrex, Colorado, Dakota, GPSMAP,
Edge, Montana, Oregon, and Rino models, Magellan eXplorist, Meridian, SporTrak GPS receivers, Lowrance iFinder,
Endura, HDS, LCX, and LMS GPS chartplotters and fishfinders.
The translation technology we wrote is pretty cool so give it a shot. We create a custom polyline and waypoints plotted on a Google Map.
Just translate the file from your device to the .gpx format (you can use http://www.easygps.com/)
and then upload that .gpx file in your Kynd Outdoors trip report.
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Key functionality
- Destination reports, detailed destination descriptions with Google Maps, news articles for destinations, destination pictures, destination videos, flow data for every U.S. state, and more!
- The latest outdoors news articles.
- The latest blog posts from outdoor bloggers from around the globe.
- Incredible pictures of outdoor enthusiasts and the destinations they love.
- Detailed business profiles, businesses plotted on Google maps, exceptional services for business owners (we help you grow), and more!
- Every section on the site that needs a Q&A section has a Q&A section! Outdoor enthusiasts can ask a question about any applicable topic. And any Kynd member can respond.
- Kynd outdoor community profiles, outdoor events, outdoor classifieds, outdoor glossaries, outdoor groups, outdoor gear reviews, and more!
- The widgets are cool little portable web apps that Kynd members can insert to any webpage or blog where they have access to code.
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Useful and beneficial services for all users
- Bloggers who add their feed link to Kynd Outdoors and then follow the linking instructions can take advantage of our blog service. This service takes all blog posts that have been validated and publishes them within 24 hours on KyndOutdoors.com. Because they are published here, that means they are instantly published on Facebook and Twitter. In addition, they will show up in Google's search results and will have a direct link back to the original blog.
- Kynd members are able to post their trip maps utilizing Google Maps and Kynd's interactive technology so other members can understand where they visited.
- Any activity that a member posts about a Kynd destination will get posted on Facebook. This means that not only will content related to destinations (pictures, reports, etc) be published on KyndOutdoors but on Facebook as well.
- The YouTube service sniffs out a Kynd member's specific tag and brings the videos into the site. That means a Kynd member can add a tag to their YouTube video(s) and when the service finds it, it will pull it into the site and post it within 48 hours.
- The widget services allow members to publish their Kynd content anywhere on the Internet. Currently Kynd offers the following widgets: Reports, Pictures, News, Blogs. If a member posts any content in one of those categories it will show up on the widget. Then whenever that widget is published (code gets copied/pasted) on a site or blog, the content is published as well.
- The PDF service allows users to print out or send PDF documents for specific Kynd destinations. This allows people to take the content (most of it) they find on the destination details page and either share it with someone as an attachment or print it and take it with them to the destination.
- The Twitter service takes certain content each day and publishes it to Twitter. The feed (.xml format) is also available by clicking on the title of the day's post from twitter's site. http://www.twitter.com/id3ma
- The report service takes all report content from a specific Kynd member and makes it available via RSS (.xml) or a Flash (.swf) widget. Anytime a report is added the site will remind you how to take advantage of this.
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Useful and beneficial services for businesses
- Any valid businesses that lists their latitude and longitude will get a pinpoint on the Google Map that displays for the state where the business is located. The map is interactive and when the pushpin is clicked a balloon will display more information for that business along with a link to the business details page.
- Any valid businesses that lists their details on the site gets a free listing on the Kynd Business Directory. Similar to Blacks, but free, this list is an excellent resource and you should get your business on it now.
- On the details page for a business, Kynd Outdoors posts an option for the user to contact or make a reservation with the business. This service will put the business in touch with prospective clients who want to travel to the businesses vicinity.
- The listing service puts valid businesses on the destination details page for all destinations the business indicates that they focus on. That means that outdoor enthusiasts looking for information on a specific destination will see the business name listed if the business services it.
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Learn more about what Kynd Outdoors offers...
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