What would make wild camping easier for you?

[vanlife4ever]

Hi everyone,

I am really passionate about creating something which would be useful for all motorhome owners!

I want to create an app and a magazine subscription for people who prefer print based. It will include features like where you can sleep overnight for free, attractions in local areas, and help you plan a trip.
You will be able to review everywhere you sleep or add in new locations which weren't recorded

I would really appreciate any recommendations or just hear your opinions on it!

Especially how much would you be willing to pay for a monthly subscription.

Hope to hear back from any of you,
Vanlife4ever

 

[tonka]

For £15 a year here on Fun I have all the info I need...
and can get all my questions answered.

As for an app and places to sleep there are plenty out there already plus many Facebook groups..

 

[Geo]

About 10 years too late
Been done to death in every format imaginable

 

[Geo]

Oh and to answer your question
Unlimited power supplies

 

[TheBig1]

talk about trying to re-invent the wheel

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[scotjimland]

Especially how much would you be willing to pay for a monthly subscription.

as said.. there are plenty out there already... many free .. you missed the boat

subs are £15 a year on here.. best money you will spend

subscribing would be your best 'first step'

 

[Podney]

A 5* hotel around the corner,just in case.

 

[Barclaybasher]

Hi everyone,

I am really passionate about creating something which would be useful for all motorhome owners!

I want to create an app and a magazine subscription for people who prefer print based. It will include features like where you can sleep overnight for free, attractions in local areas, and help you plan a trip.
You will be able to review everywhere you sleep or add in new locations which weren't recorded

I would really appreciate any recommendations or just hear your opinions on it!

Especially how much would you be willing to pay for a monthly subscription.

Hope to hear back from any of you,
Vanlife4ever

Well - I for one wish you well

 

[Chris]

Wild camping would be much easier if I had a van

 

[two]

What are your credentials?

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[klaatu]

Cheek. But I see they've been made read-only.

 

[nicholsong]

Hi everyone,

I am really passionate about creating something which would be useful for all motorhome owners!

I want to create an app and a magazine subscription for people who prefer print based. It will include features like where you can sleep overnight for free, attractions in local areas, and help you plan a trip.
You will be able to review everywhere you sleep or add in new locations which weren't recorded

I would really appreciate any recommendations or just hear your opinions on it!

Especially how much would you be willing to pay for a monthly subscription.

Hope to hear back from any of you,
Vanlife4ever

Zero subscription

I already have 4 free apps for this stuff.

As for a magazine, how would most long-term MHomers receive it?

I do not know your experience, but the idea seems based on very little knowledge/research.

 

[bobandjanie]

Wild camping would be alot easier for us if it wasn't for all the information on the web telling everyone where to park, because these apps are out of date and many places you will either get moved or fined.
Before apps many couldn't be bothered to find anywhere and went on campsites. Bob.

 

[Mikey RV]

What you going to call it FLT monthly.

 

[Madcaravanner]

How many Apps have you looked at ??? How many platforms have you studied
Have you got a reliable cheap developer to help you

there are a few out there that already cover what you suggest although none provide hard copy - but with the way things are going any magazine would be out of date before it's printed

Why not head out the You Tube way there are lots of channels you could supplement with a magazine style channel covering Wild Camping



To answer our question I pay for just ONE APP (Search For Sites) at the huge price of £5.99 (that covers ALL types of camping) and of course £15 for Motorhome Fun

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[Nicepix]

Hi everyone,

I am really passionate about creating something which would be useful for all motorhome owners!

I want to create an app and a magazine subscription for people who prefer print based. It will include features like where you can sleep overnight for free, attractions in local areas, and help you plan a trip.
You will be able to review everywhere you sleep or add in new locations which weren't recorded

I would really appreciate any recommendations or just hear your opinions on it!

Especially how much would you be willing to pay for a monthly subscription.

Hope to hear back from any of you,
Vanlife4ever

Wild campers pay? He really hasn't grasped it has he?

 

[Nicepix]

A 5* hotel around the corner,just in case.

Ask for the Bear Grylls Suite

 

[Tea Bag]

Hi.
One way of getting all the info....Free ?. Nice try,but no cigar.
Tea Bag

 

[scotzsue]

what I would really like is for folk to keep quiet about good places they find and only tell their best mates That way the best places wouldn#t be full so early.

 

[Madcaravanner]

Where is the original poster?

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[Geo]

Overwhelmed by the constructive responses

 

[Barclaybasher]

Where is the original poster?

Probably given up with so many negative replies..............not much FUN

 

[pappajohn]

Mmm!! Joined today, made just one post... This one... and now read only.
Got to be a record.

 

[mitzimad]

an invisibilty motorhome cover

 

[TheBig1]

broke the rules in his 1st and only post

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[Euphony]

Trees with plug in points would get my vote, pull in anywhere next to a tree stick the old power cord in and Bob is in fact, your dad’s brother.
Treemendous amounts of power free of charge. What a treet,

 

[Eggs]

Trees with plug in points would get my vote, pull in anywhere next to a tree stick the old power cord in and Bob is in fact, your dad’s brother.
Treemendous amounts of power free of charge. What a treet,

Or, you could just wire into a lamp column (only joking).

 

[houdini]

Agree with @Barclaybasher, probably put off by the unfriendly responses.

 

[Conal]

In our admittedly short travelling life (two years excursions in the UK, Ireland, France and Spain) one thing we weren’t often able to get from apps, web sites, guide books or google earth was information about road access to areas or to informal sites. Sometimes we have been able to make an informed choice from blogs and forum posts with photos and decriptions.

Our Motorhome is nearly 8 metres long and wider than the average vehicle, so it is important to us to be sure we will fit. Our Garmin camper satnav is useless in this respect - a question mark is not information.
I would pay (although not a lot) for an app/ publication that was updated each year with suggestions for “large Motorhome friendly” areas.

My advice from my college days long ago is don’t spent too much time on this.

There are lots of apps - you have to offer something different.
Maintaining such a service for a large area would be incredibly time-consuming. I think you would have to use a similar model as Britstops use if you were doing this for real.
It might be wise, for your presentation, to start with one area - the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales, or North Wales might fit the bill as they are very popular with many narrow roads and will have been visited by many here.

You may not be able to afford the subscription for this site but I don’t think you will get many too many responses from members here without giving them a specific task so I have a suggestion, your exercise is fiction, so invent sites based on a real area.

Thomas Hardy wrote about Dorset and invented towns based on real places. Maybe your family and friends could look at an area you chose on google earth, and make up fictitious names for real sites.

Others may be happy to provide disguised information for their favourite sites. If you were given access information on 50 “sites” that would probably be enough.

You would want people to suggest improvements. For instance if you were to chose my suggestion, once you gave us your basic ideas someone might post the suggestion that you add short screen cam videos of the approach. Someone else might suggest a map route showing the best direction from which to approach the area.

An example might be: In Skelwith Bridge there is a Rugby Club. In the summer months they rent out their pitches for motorhomes. You could google small village sports clubs in the area and invent one that allows free parking overnight. The information for this may be “from the south follow the one way system towards Coniston Water and the site is on your left as you leave the town. Good access with no overhanging trees and wide gates”

Some supermarkets and superstores allow free overnight parking (Alde and Ikea abroad). Again, google supermarkets in the area and change names and say they offer free overnight parking.

Whatever you chose as an app I would be happy to get at least five others to assist you by emailing you directly with constructive comments from different email addresses so that is six to start with.

Once you have an initial outline of what you are suggesting, post it on here and I will check if I can private message you. If not I am sure we can find a way to get in contact. I am on Facebook.

Hope this helps

Conal

 

[tonyidle]

It might be wise, for your presentation, to start with one area - the xxxxxxx, the Yorkshire Dales, or North Wales might fit the bill as they are very popular with many narrow roads and will have been visited by many here.

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