What's New on OpenVan.camp
Chronological changelog of OpenVan.camp: launches of new sections, notable improvements and fixes. Each entry has a date, a short summary, and the details of what changed and why. Updated as new features ship.
We built Roadbook: your whole cross-border road trip on one page
You're driving through five countries. Enter where from and where to, your passport and your vehicle, and a couple of minutes later you can see how long you and the vehicle can stay in each country, where to buy a vignette, what fuel will cost and where to sleep. A road trip planner without ten open tabs and sums in your head.
License plates from 199 countries, with region codes, a plate generator and the game A Million Kilometres
Ahead of you on the motorway, a car with a blue band and the letter M at the start of the plate. German, obviously, but from where: Munich or Mannheim? Open License Plates of the World, type M and you’ll see Munich and its district on the map.
We built a visa calculator: how many days you and your van have left in every country
Winter in Cyprus, spring in Turkey, summer in Georgia — every country counts your days its own way, and your van has a separate count of its own. Add your stays to the calculator and see, for each country, how many days are left and the date you need to leave by. No more sums in your notes before every border.
Fuel prices clarified — 92, 95, 98 and diesel now listed separately
"Petrol price" is like "food price". Something's been said, but it's unclear what. Country pages now show all available grades with individual prices: from 92 to 98, diesel, LPG.
We Show the Price at Every Gas Station in 18 Countries — Right on the Map
Last time we launched fuel prices for 100+ countries and admitted honestly: they're country averages, and a station up in the mountains might cost more than one in the capital. Now, for 18 countries, you can see the price at each specific gas station — right on the map, with a slider and a fuel-type filter.
Launched the Glossary — 316 vanlife terms in 7 languages
You read a European forum, run into boondocking. You google it — and get either surfing or California slang. We built a Glossary so the same term doesn't have to be decoded from scratch in every language and every country.
We built VanSky — a comfort index for cities, a week ahead
You're going to a country for a week. You open VanSky and see its cities sorted by comfort for the next seven days. No five open forecasts, no trying to remember where it was +18 without rain and where it was +30 and stuffy.
We launched worldwide fuel prices and a route calculator on top
You are planning a route across four countries and trying to estimate the fuel bill. You open one site for Georgia, another for Turkey, a third for Greece — different currencies, different units, and nowhere is it clear what this means for your tank. To stop this from repeating, we launched a section with fuel prices for 100+ countries and built a route calculator on top of it.