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Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

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Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#171
Incredibly useful website. I have a few suggestions but please don't take this as negative criticism! I travel a fair bit and having these things would make this website my "one stop shop" for travel needs!

  * The ability to export a list of results into CSV or something else that I can import into a spreadsheet. I tend to make travel plans on spreadsheets, and this would be very helpful.
  * Scrolling to the left or right makes the colours disappear? I think this may be an OSM limitation but it really confused me. 
  * Is there a way I can filter on multiple categories? I'd like to look at visa-free and visa-on-arrival in the same map.
  * This may be personal preference, but the emoji are really distracting. 
  * The region filter doesn't seem to influence the subregion filter? If I select "Asia" as a region I assumed the sub-regions list would reflect only the sub-regions of Asia but that doesn't seem to be true
  * If I can subscribe to visa status *changes* for my country by email I'd give up my email address immediately. I'd probably be willing to pay money for this if it's accurate :)* The fact that this is non-authoritative doesn't bother me at all. You may want to highlight this a bit more "strongly". Maybe give up some of that priceless above-the-fold real-estate just to save yourself any legal trouble.
  * Consider linking to traveldoc.aero as well.
  * Several people I know and work/travel with have multiple passports from countries that allow it. Consider allowing the multiple home countries!

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#172

Just checked and it isn't accurate for citizens of Pakistan. For instance it says, "visa is required for Israel". Pakistan doesn't recognise Israel therefore they can't even apply for a visa.

The website is accurate - a visa is required- but oversimplifying things. It's certainly possible, but it requires jumping through hoops. Essentially you have to "hop" through a third country.

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#173
post #171

Incredibly useful website. I have a few suggestions but please don't take this as negative criticism! I travel a fair bit and having these things would make this website my "one stop shop" for travel needs! * The ability to export a list of results into CSV or something else that I can import into a spreadsheet. I tend to make travel plans on spreadsheets, and this would be very helpful. * Scrolling to the left or ri…

This is extremely useful feedback.

1. I understand, there isnt a plan as data keeps changing. i will see what i can do

2. Go it.

3. I'm thinking of adding it.

4 :)

5 Yes, it should. I just wanted to keep it dumb in the begining. Will change that.

6 Interesting

7 I will

8 Yes this is the most requested feature, i will build it soon.

Again thanks a lot for the wonderful feedback.

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#174
One oddness - home country is AU, attempting to determine status for Croatia. On the map it comes up as visa-free. Filtering 'croatia' shows it as visa-free. But even after scrolling all the way to the bottom, Croatia only shows up as as one of the languages spoken in Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina. Might be a browser artefact - I'm on Chrome - and/or after-effect of page load, but it's not ideal. (It's always faster to type ctrl-f than to mouse-navigate to on-page search / filter dialogs.)

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#175
post #26

Good job! Nice UI. But little but very important note for people from those countries: Add region called "Central Europe". Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Hungarians... they hate being marked as eastern europeans ;)

As an American who visited all those countries and conversed with multiple citizens from each of those countries, they do remind you of the "Central Europe" thing.. However, they don't understand that for Americans, "Eastern Europe" isn't geographic; it's geopolitical... essentially, Europe east of the former Berlin Wall There's South America the continent, but for some Spanish people (and possibly other peoples), "S…

But that's it! We hate to be connected with former Soviet eastern block. Therefore it's even more important for us to be considered and called Central Europe ;)

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

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post #128
post #126

There are spelling errors on each page I've looked at so far (eg travel "Iternary"). Personally I'd never trust such a site; I'd rather rely on my own research of visa conditions direct from official sources for the couples of times a year I need such information. If you can somehow increase the trustworthiness of your site, this might change.

Apologies for the typo, corrected it. Currently there are offical website links, visa application link and fee links along with document checklist. You can always cross check with the official site. As next step, i'm planning to add crowdsource validation, so the data is most accurate and upto date.

If you plan to crowdsource information, please make it abundantly clear that the info is crowdsourced, and maybe even make it slightly harder to get! There is a lot of inaccurate information about visas.

Part of the problem is that border agents in most countries have A LOT of discretion in who is not allowed in, even if the laws explicitly say otherwise. To a lesser extent, they also make exceptions in the other direction (I've been granted a visa-on-arrival for a country that did not allow people with my passport to get visas on arrival :).

Folks often mistake their personal experience as "the law", which is often wrong.

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#178

> Australia is part of Australia and New Zealand, Oceania with capital at Canberra. Somewhat concerning to have a mistake of this type on a website like this—or I'm just behind in the news.

So the format is

part of , woth cpaital at

Re: Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

#179
post #66

Why don't add a second column under the map to use the extra white space ?

i was thinking of adding useful tips / content in the future

Makes sense. It would be nice if the results refresh as I zoom in the map.
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