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| − | ===Digihitch===
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| − | '''Digihitch''' is a complete web portal devoted to hitchhiking, with thousands of members around the world and 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.
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| − | * [http://www.digihitch.com/forums.html 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 our ''Sparkies'' forum.
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| − | * [http://www.digihitch.com/world/ 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')
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| − | * [http://www.digihitch.com/encyclopedia.html 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.
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| − | ===[[Liftershalte.info]]===
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| − | '''[http://www.liftershalte.info Liftershalte.info]''' is a world map where everyone can add markers to good hitching spots. Thus it will hopefully become valuable help for hitching in any place of the world.
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| − | ===Hitchbase===
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| − | The Worldwide Database of places for Hitchhikers, also known as the [http://www.hitchbase.com/index.php?LANG=eng Hitchbase], is a database where hitchhikers can seek for good places to hitchhike. Most entries are in English, but some entries are written in German. Updating information is not very easy, but for tips in hitching Finland it's unbeatable.
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| − | As of August 2006 it includes 28 countries, Germany with 146 places, Finland 82, and Sweden 28, France 18.
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| − | ===Suite101===
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| − | '''Suite 101''' is a sort of on-line magazine which ran a monthly hitchhiking column from October 1996 to February 2003. The columnist, [http://bernd.wechner.info Bernd Wechner], ceased writing for Suite 101 in 2003 and the archive at Suite 101 itself has fallen into an embarrasing state of disrepair since. All the same it is available at:
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| − | * http://www.suite101.com/welcome.cfm/hitch_hiking
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| − | Bernd Wechner has however archived all the articles written for that column on [http://bernd.wechner.info/Hitchhiking/Suite101/ his own site] and [http://www.digihitch.com/featured_salman.html Morgan Salman Strub] has archived them on digihitch along with a wealth of other material from many contributors.
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| − | ===Hitchhiker's guide to Europe===
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| − | Hitchhikers' guide to Europe is a website by Kirsi Jokisalo with tips about hitchhiking in several European countries: [http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/kjokisal/liftaus/ Hitchhikers' guide to Europe]
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| − | ===Hitch-hiking===
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| − | [http://hitch-hiking.org www.hitch-hiking.org] is a great site in English and German language with lots of information about hitchhiking in general, legal issues and dozens of funny anecdotes about hitching.
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| − | ===In the Netherlands===
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| − | * [http://www.franknature.nl/hitchhike/hitchhike.htm Hitchhiking in the Netherlands] (Ad-Hoc-Carpooling), a nice website by Frank Verhart
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| − | ==Finnish==
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| − | '''[http://www.liftari.org Liftari.org]''' is a community webpage for [[Finland | Finnish]] hitchhikers. It's a community blog started in early 2004, containing tips and stories about hitchhiking.
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| − | After the first year there were more than 200 members signed on the website, about 100 articles about hitchhiking posted to the site and a working bulletin board for discussions. The community organizes gettogether meetings, though irregularly, and there has been interest to the community by the local media.
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| − | The site is mostly in [[finland#Language | Finnish]], but foreigners coming to [[hitchhiking | hitchhike]] in [[Finland]] can post questions on the forum.
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| − | ==German==
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| − | * [http://deu.anarchopedia.org/index.php/Tramp-Ratgeberin Hitchhike info on Anarchopedia], '''wiki''' and available under the GNU Free Documentation License (which is compatible with this wiki).
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| − | ==Russian==
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| − | * [http://www.hike.ru hike.ru], with some information [http://hike.ru/?newlang=eng in English]
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