Updated iPhone App Now Available
As of this afternoon, we now have a new version of our iPhone and iPad apps available in the Apple App Store. I wanted to give a special thanks to our community for this update. We received a smattering of reports of people have trouble with the app crashing. We had a very difficult time repeating the problem in our test environments and on our own phones, but thanks to our community, we were able to track down the problem. It's now been fixed so please update the app to get the latest version.
A few other items of note:
- We now feature information on 19,855 RV parks in the U.S. We're getting pretty close to full coverage (or as full as we think can get), but we definitely want to hit 20,000.
- Our main website and our mobile website (m.rvparking.com) always have the most up to date information, but the iPhone app will lag behind a little bit. We designed the app to work without an Internet connection since you can't always count on getting a good signal while you're roaming the backwoods. The downside is that you have to update the app to get that latest information. So if you ever send us a suggested correction or a new park, it will be updated on the web site right away, but will take some time to show up in the app.
Again, our apologies to anyone that was inconvenienced by the bug and thanks for reporting the problem.
Bella Online’s Spotlight Article on RVParking.com
Erin Floresca, RV Editor at BellaOnline.com and one of our frequent guest bloggers has written a spotlight article on RVParking.com. Erin asked us some really great questions that we're sure some of you have been secretly wondering about as well. Like "Are you RVers? If so, what kind of rig do you own?" and the ever popular "What city is RVParking based out of? ". We've included a little excerpt from the article below. As always feel free to comment with any questions that you still might have for us and enjoy!
"So, after writing two guest blog posts and contributing a few park reviews, I decided it was time to find out more about the folks behind the site.
RVparking.com was founded by Erik Budde of T2 Media, a company dedicated to building niche online businesses. According to Budde, "Some of our previous businesses include AboutAirportParking.com which offers detailed information on where to park at over one hundred airports. That site has grown very rapidly and handles more than two hundred thousand parking reservations a month." T2 Media also runs TravelwithYourKids.com, a great resource for parents traveling with children.
So just where does the RV lifestyle fit into this picture? Budde’s parents began RVing about five years ago and he’s been on a number of trips with them. "Looking at the resources available for RVers, I felt that the existing tools weren’t nearly as strong as they could be," says Budde. While some of the online resources his parents utilized featured park reviews, the information available on them was limited. Others had plenty of park reviews, but the listings were often incomplete and the sites were hard to navigate. "No one seemed to offer one of the most valuable items—real user photos," says Budde. "Finally, although RVing is inherently mobile, there were almost no mobile solutions."
Continue reading RVParking.com Spotlight article here