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=== Digihitch === | === Digihitch === |
Revision as of 20:31, 6 February 2016
Besides Hitchwiki there are quite a few decent websites out there with info about hitchhiking.
A huge list of hitchhiking-related websites can be also found here.
Contents
Social media
- Hitchwiki
- Hitchgathering group
- Autostop France
- Hitchhiking
- Random Roads magazine
- Tramprennen - a hitchhike race for drinking water
- Hitchlog
Tools
- Hitchlog.com is a tool to keep log on your rides.
Practical info
- Liftershalte.info is a world map where everyone can mark hitching spots.
- The Hitchbase is a database where hitchhikers can seek for good places to hitchhike. Most entries are in English but some are written in German, too. It is not that easy to update the information there but what is already updated fascinates at times (e.g., tips for hitching in Finland).
- hitch-hiking.org is a great site in English and German with lots of general information about hitchhiking, legal issues, including at the same time dozens of funny anecdotes.
- Hitchhiking in the Netherlands (Ad-Hoc-Carpooling) - a neat website by Frank Verhart.
- Hitchhiking reddit - user submitted articles and discussion.
Digihitch
- Digihitch is a complete web portal devoted to hitchhiking, with thousands of members around the world, and a new, original content every day. The site receives over 40,000 visitors each month. Digihitch.com has many different areas of information to: showcase new stuff, help travelers prepare for a trip, or to allow registered members to share stories and articles.
- Great Campfire Forums - Discussion forums with thousands of topics on everything related to hitchhiking, including forums on road culture and regional travel. People new to hitchhiking can get help in the Sparkies forum.
- Digihitch World - Map-based navigation of worldwide hitchhiking resources. Click on a country or sub-region to view its stories, links and discussion groups. Members can also vote for each region based on 5 key points (including affordability, safety and 'hitchhikability')
- Encyclopedia of Road Sub-Culture - Includes hundreds of biographies, song lyrics, travel terms and movies. Favorites include our Hitchhiking in the Movies section- listing all movies that have hitchhiking- and Celebrity Sub-culture, with a listing of actors, musicians and other notables who have been on the road.
Other languages
There are also Hitchwikis (or sister projects in other names) in other languages, Spanish, German, French, Finnish, Portuguese, Bulgarian and Russian.
German
- Hitchhike info on Anarchopedia - wiki which is available under the GNU Free Documentation License (compatible with this wiki).
- Abgefahren e.V. - Deutsche AutoStop Gesellschaft - German Autostop Society which has regular meetings, interesting ideas, etc.
- German competitive autostop club DTSG
- Tramprennen, an annual hitchhike-race across the european mainland.
Russian
- hike.ru - Russian site with some information in English
Spanish
- AutostopArgentina is a community page for hitch-hikers from Argentina and South America in general. There's lots of detailed data about hitchhiking in Argentina, HOWTO's, and a forum with more than 1200 registered members.
See also
- Hitchhiking clubs around the world
- Wikis for wiki websites
- Multimedia for an overview of different media stuff on hitchhiking
Personal blogs and projects
- Kepesita
- Velabas - Travel Narrative Is a website that documents one person's personal hitchhiking expeirences and drawings. It also links to many useful sites.