Road Trip! Mapping A Family Vacation
Where should we go? What will we see?
Summer is peak season for family vacation travel. Road trips are the most common mode of transportation and for that, you need a map!
Let’s start out with a basic, easy-to-read, easy-to-fold travel map of the USA. This Rand McNally USA Easy to Fold Travel Map will get us started as we plan our trip!
What are some of the most popular family vacation road trips?
- National Parks
- Washington D.C.
- Regional Attractions
- Family Visits & Reunions
- Major Cities
- Themes: famous Lighthouses or Baseball Fields or Shopping
We’re not surprised at all to find that Maps.com has you covered for any or all of these travel favorites!
Affiliates can freshen their Maps.com featured pages with any of these ideas for family vacations – let’s make it a summer travel season to remember – with a well-planned road trip – and increased sales on our site or blog!
ShareEurope Travel Map Available In Maps.com Product Catalog
Europe Travel Guide
We looked for examples of products you could feature for summer travel to Europe and as we said in the previous post, there were 286 products when we searched “Europe” and 98 when we narrowed that to “Europe travel”.
The guide shown at the right is one of the results returned. It’s super simple to click “Get HTML” and make your choices in the pop-up window. CJ is in the process of migrating the product catalog to their new Links section, so specific directions could change. But here’s how we found this guide:
- Login to CJ and go to Get Links
- Search by advertiser first: Maps.com
- Then click on products
- You’ll see a search box and text that says “Product catalog has more than 1000 items”.
- Type “Europe travel” in the search box
- Pick and choose the guides you want to feature – check the box to the left of each individual guide
- Click “Get HTML”
- Copy and paste the links
That looks like a lot of steps, but if you’re used to grabbing links at CJ, only the first 4 might be something new! It really is very easy!
ShareUse The Maps.com Datafeed At CJ To Expand Your Site Offerings
Partial screenshot of the results for product search: Europe travel
Our recent theme for Maps.com promotion has been summer travel, specifically Europe. Planning summer travel requires maps and travel guides and if you’re familiar with datafeeds, you can expand your site offerings with the Maps.com datafeed at CJ.
The image here is a partial screenshot of the results when we searched for “Europe travel” in the product catalog. As you probably already know, the product catalog comes from the datafeed, so if you’re not ready to download the entire feed, you can pick several individual products and get links for them specifically.
There are more than 1000 products in the Maps.com datafeed, 286 come up in results for the search term “Europe” alone. When we narrowed the search to “Europe travel” we got 98 maps and guides you can promote for planning summer travel in Europe!
We’ve created a tutorial for downloading datafeeds at CJ if you’re not familiar. If you’re looking for links to individual products, enter your search terms in the product catalog and you’ll get results like the image here. Check off the ones you want and then “get html”.
ShareVisiting Paris? Use This Street Map by Maps.com
Visiting Paris? You’ll Love This Street Map by Maps.com!
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With an excellent map, you can be your own guide and not miss the things you will enjoy most! Most of the time you find things you normally wouldn’t discover if your following a guide!
Maps.com has incredibly beautiful and very useful street maps for many different countries.
Paris Street Map at Maps.com
Environmentally friendly and durable, the Borch maps provide great information for travelers, tourists and locals.
Complete with easy-to-read index, recognizable symbols, and a laminated write-on/wipe-off surface.
This travel map of Paris features:
• Top Sights
• Hotels, Museums, Markets, Churches
• Public Transportation and so much more!
Affiliates: Landing page URL for map featured here:
Paris Street Map: http://www.maps.com/map.aspx?pid=16743
Exploring Europe? Start With A Trip To Maps.com
Europe can be overwhelming; simplify your trip planning with Maps.com
There are so many wonderful sites to see and countries to visit when in Europe. You can get a little bewildered in the choices. Keep your cool with help from Maps.com!
Easy Traveling Through Europe With Maps.com
The Europe Touring and Motoring Atlas will make the difference when touring Europe. This map is a very easy to use map helps you locate your destination easily with the complete index of place names.
This map includes:
• 78 town plans
• Route Planner
• Place name index
• Over 40 Countries
• Various Scale
• Legend available in Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish
• Contains blank pages for personal notes
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Traveling this Summer? Get a Travel Guide from Maps.com
If you are planning a quick weekend away, or a nice long vacation, having a travel guide of your destination is ideal.
Travel Guides at Maps.com
Whether you’re going overseas or staying in your own backyard, it is very easy to pick up a travel guide from Maps.com.
These guides are full of helpful information that will make a big difference in your vacation! With time being an issue, using this will make the best of it!
This product has reliable advice on getting around, attractions, museums, restaurants and hotel accommodations. They also include numerous detailed continent and country maps, color photographs, extensive background material and coverage of sights both on and off the beaten path~ Maps.com.
I must confess, reading maps is not easy for me, so having this guide in an easy-to-read format is great. Plus the guide is not based on any certain budget, there are great options for any budget, high or low.
When you are finished checking out the tourist destinations, your travel guide also gives you material on the “off-the-beaten-path” route. This guide will give you the insight you want before you begin your travel journey, IT’S LIKE HAVING YOUR OWN PERSONAL TRAVEL GUIDE!!
Summer travel plans mean more maps sales than usual – affiliates should be refreshing pages and adding useful info like travel guides to their offerings for Maps.com!
ShareThe Value Of A World Atlas For Home
Bridge the knowledge gap with an atlas!
Digital navigation is wonderful, but when you need high quality information about people, places and things, an atlas can bridge the gap between a history book and a map.
Maps.com is the largest online map store and they’ve been providing every possible kind of map and atlas for over 20 years! Their collection of atlases and recommendations about purchasing will give you plenty of ways and plenty of reasons to feature them on your blog or website!
The World Atlas featured in the image here has all the best aspects of the Oxford line of atlases, in a handy paperback format that’s affordable for everyday family use.
With over one hundred pages of superbly crafted maps covering the globe, this beautiful book includes:
Stunning full-color computer generated maps
Section of large-scale world maps with general index
Easy to use indices with letter-figure grid references and full geographic coordinates
World statistics, survey data and colorful representations of flags from around the world
International in scope, with fully updated coverage of every part of the world
Section of satellite images provides an impression of our world from above
Hundreds of up-to-the-minute political and topographical changes
This particular product would be a great feature on a family site, an education blog and especially in the parenting niche. Nothing speaks of good parenting more than having resources in your home when the children have questions about their world!
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Personalized World New Century Wall Map
It’s been 8 years since Snow Consulting was selected to manage the Maps.com affiliate program. Lots of great things have happened in those 8 years, and we’re celebrating with a contest where YOU win the prize!
Prizes:
- We have 2 Personalized Wall Maps: The New Century World Map, detail shown below. 2 lucky winners will each receive this wall map, personalized for their family (or for a gift), ready to frame and display in your home as beautiful wall decor! This is the 41 x 29 size, with a choice of border styles as seen at Maps.com.
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ShareStyle and Function with Maps.com
Style and Function with Maps.com
Maps.com makes it easy to add any kind of map to your home!
I was having a fantastic conversation with my daughter the other day and it was on the Middle East. She was talking about history. Very interesting to say the least.
Now, I am sad to admit that geography is not my strong suit, and during that lovely talk, I wished I had a world map to refer to. Obviously I did more listening then talking, so I definitely need to brush up on my geography and with some help from Maps.com it will be that much easier!
Standing Maps from Maps.com
There are so many different and classy ways I could incorporate a map into my home decor too. It could be as tasteful framed map as wall art or a gorgeous globe sitting on my sofa table.
My favorite way would have to be the Floor Globe. These are so beautiful and gives such a refined feel to any room. Whether it’s an office or family computer room or even the main living room!
I could use this deal, and get a fantastic price!
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Marin Floor Globe In Picture Above: http://www.maps.com/map.aspx?cid=7,67&pid=3714
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