Social travel community TravBuddy has come up with a pretty cool map building widget for those travel bloggers with their own websites. (Check out my own example above).

Basically you head over to their travel mapping page, and you check off all the countries you’ve visited so far. Afterwards, you’re presented with 3 different sizes of your travel map, which can be embedded on any other website to show the world just how much of the planet you’ve seen.

Of course, nothing is ever entirely free. In exchange for providing this cool feature, the highlighted countries on your map can be clicked, which takes you to Travbuddy’s travel blogs, photos, and members for that location.

It would be nice if they gave you the option of creating your own links from the highlighted countries, which would allow someone to navigate to your own online journals, instead of others’. Ah well. You can’t have it all, I suppose.

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