Glossary
The words Doko Maps uses.
A short dictionary of the ideas you meet across the product, and what each one means here.
- Guide
- A themed map of places, with your notes, made to share. Your workspace calls it a map.
- Place
- A real place found through Google Maps, such as a restaurant or a temple. One place can appear in many guides, each with its own note.
- My Places
- Your private library of saved places, ready to add to any guide or itinerary.
- Category
- Your own name, color and icon for a kind of place, such as Coffee or Onsen, shared by all your guides and itineraries.
- Itinerary
- A dated plan of one trip, made for a named guest: what happens each day, in what order, where they sleep and what it costs.
- Guest
- The person an itinerary is made for. A guest reads it by a guest link and never needs an account.
- Day
- One date of an itinerary. Every date from the first day to the last is a day, even one with nothing planned.
- Stop
- Something on a day where the guest stays in one place: a meal, a visit, a free afternoon.
- Journey
- Travel from one place to another on a day, by train, bus, ferry or on foot. It is an item of its own, with its own fares.
- Stay
- The nights in one hotel, from check-in to check-out. A stay from the 24th to the 27th is three nights.
- Pass
- A ticket bought once that covers several days and journeys, such as a regional rail pass. Its price is counted once.
- Idea
- A guide you offer the guest for free time. It names where to look, not what to do, and copies nothing from the guide.
- Travel book
- The guest's presentation of an itinerary: a cover, contents and a chapter for each day, with a map that follows the reader.
- Practical itinerary
- The same trip as folding days, with stays and passes beside them, for reading on the road.
- Guest link
- An address nobody can guess that lets your guest read one itinerary or guide without signing in. You can revoke it.
- Public itinerary
- An itinerary listed on your profile for anyone to read. It never shows the guest's name.
- Enquiry
- A request for a trip like one you published, sent from your public itinerary. Doko Maps passes it on; you answer it yourself.
- Review round
- One chance for the guest to comment on a draft by email or WhatsApp, followed by your revisions. Two rounds come before the final itinerary.
- Trip budget
- What an itinerary costs, in the currency you quote in, with an optional estimate in your guest's currency.
- Planning assistant
- The assistant beside the editor. It adds stops, journeys, stays and passes and reorders days when you ask, and never deletes.
- Creator
- A user whose subscription, trial or beta invitation lets them make guides and itineraries.
- Reader
- A user who signs in for free to follow creators and read their guides.
- Editor
- A colleague invited to work on one guide or itinerary, inside the owner's plan.
- Follow
- A request to read a creator's private guides. It counts once the creator approves it.
- Visit
- A city you have been to, drawn on the globe of your public profile.
One professional itinerary, presented as a travel book made for the guest.
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