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Re: Show HN: Find days out near you in the UK

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Post by robotmay » Thu, May 03, 2012, 1:26 PM UTC

polshaw wrote: post #29

Very nice, great design. I've often considered this an opportunity.. although managing the events to a high standard is a difficult challenge (perhaps consider (carefully) some element of crowd-sourcing?). What I would like to see, is some way to get photos related to a place/event (some of their own websites had none). I might usually get them from google maps (either streetview or images w/ location).. but a differ…

Aye, managing the events/places is the trickiest part at the moment. One of my main goals is to have people submitting their own events/places or submitting those they know of near them; I can't index everything by myself, unfortunately! I'm working on an admin panel which will allow me to moderate submissions to help keep it clean and helpful.

In theory a lot of the places (and events too if they have past versions of the same event) will show photos from Flickr. It matches on the Flickr place ID and pulls in photos mentioning the name in that area. However it does mean that a number of places have no photos, which I'd love to improve upon. Allowing people to add their own photos might be a good improvement.

I'm trying to think of a way of including things like walks; data that is neither a place nor an event, but something to do at a place/in an area. I'm currently listing activities (although they don't match up to every record yet) as general terms, but I'd like to find a way to list more specific activities!

Thanks for the feedback, it's much appreciated :)

Re: Show HN: Find days out near you in the UK

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Post by robotmay » Thu, May 03, 2012, 1:30 PM UTC

nicholassmith wrote: post #30

Nice! Good work! Some of your look-up details are a bit off though, if I click 'Newcastle' I get a list of things so we'll pick 'Get Outdoors and Dirty' as it's the first, and quite frankly who can say no to getting dirty. If you go into Newcastle it says 7 miles, which seems about right, however if you type Middlesbrough into the search box it'll also list it but it's about 20 miles off (38 miles vs about 59ish in r…

Thanks for the feedback!

The geocoding can be a little odd at times and I'm keeping track of things like this to help me improve it. The first thing I'll do is ensure that all the city/area links on the homepage point to more or less the center of that city/area; some seem to be in very odd places. Any reports like this are really useful :D

Re: Show HN: Find days out near you in the UK

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Post by mike-cardwell » Thu, May 03, 2012, 2:24 PM UTC

robotmay wrote: post #14

mike-cardwell wrote: post #13

I stuck "Nottingham" in the "Location" field, and "Castle" in the "Keywords" field. It didn't mention the castle in the middle of Nottingham :(

Do you know which organisation runs it? I have a feeling that I'm missing a number of English Heritage properties, which I'm working on.

Unfortunately not. There's a load of info about it here though: http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1036 - Might be in there somewhere

Re: Show HN: Find days out near you in the UK

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Post by robotmay » Thu, May 03, 2012, 3:45 PM UTC

mike-cardwell wrote: post #33

robotmay wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know which organisation runs it? I have a feeling that I'm missing a number of English Heritage properties, which I'm working on.

Unfortunately not. There's a load of info about it here though: http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1036 - Might be in there somewhere

Looks like it's the same setup as Cardiff Castle; most likely run by the local council. These kinda one-off places are what will hopefully be easily added when I open up event/place submission to users; which I'm hoping to get up in the next week or so :)