Website Suggestions

When using the campground locator map, it would be useful to have the pushpin icons colored by the ratings of the campground. For example: 08-10 = green, 06-08 = blue, 04-06 = black, 02-04 = orange, and 00-02 = red.

It would also be useful to have the icon be different based on the ownership of the campground like city, county, state, BLM, Forest Service, National Park Service, private, etc.

These changes would make finding a desired campground on the map quicker and easier.

 

Those are both excellent suggestions and I've forwarded them to our development team.

Unfortunately, at present most of our listed campgrounds are not directly coded as to whether they are in state or national parks, etc. There are lots of reasons for wanting to do this but it would involve a massive data insertion effort so it's not likely to happen in the near future.

 

It is a good idea. What about crowd sourcing the data entry, much like the way campground amenities are done now?

 

I can suggest that to the site owner but that's not within my purview to decide.

 

It would be helpful if the list of one's reviews included the name of the CG in addition to the date. Most of us probably remember the name and location more than the date. Thanks

 

When I look at the list of my own reviews (or anyone else's) the name of the park and the city are on the right side of each review (see screenshot). Isn't this what you are seeing?


Joel (AKA docj)

 

It would be great if a GPX file of all 15,000+ RVPR campgrounds was available to be downloaded.

 

As CarlW suggested, a GPX file would be a great resource. It could be used by various apps that would in turn generate more review pages being viewed. It would be a win-win for everyone.

 

Thanks for your interest in RVParkReviews. We are actively working to increase our visibility with RVers and RV park owners. Currently, we are encouraging park owners and managers to "claim their listing" so they can, among other things, respond directly to reviews of their park. As you suggested, we have also been distributing door stickers for owners to display.

We appreciate your interest and involvement in RVPR. Members like you are what really make the site what it is today. Thanks for participating.

Joel (AKA docj)

 

I definitely agree!

 

If all you're looking for are CG locations for your GPS you can download that data from POIFactory. Here's a link to a file with over 14,000 CG locations: http://www.poi-factory.com/node/17657http://www.poi-factory.com/node/17657

Of course, there are several phone app

 

I wish I could quickly rank a search by camp user rating... I don't want to page through all the low quality parks in an area...

 

So what you are saying is that when you search for parks in a certain area, you want to be able to see only those parks that are rated average or better. That is a good suggestion, and we will pass it along to our site developers. Thanks.

 

Yes, or better, rank them in order, best to worst.

 

... and I'd like to do this by city, state, area....whatever geographic sublevels you offer.

 

So, (for example), you want to see the system generate a list of parks in the Orlando, Florida area, up to to 25 miles away from Orlando, that have an average rating or above, and listed in order of ranking from best to worst. That's a pretty tall order, but our programmers just might be able to come up with some kind of "sort" function that could accommodate this. It doesn't hurt to ask.

 

That's it... we need to quickly sort for the better parks and book them. Other's might want to sort on price but that's not my issue.

 

Maybe those features could be added to the 14 optional advanced search choices.

 

Good idea. Thanks..