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Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

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post #18

what's your data source? if it's not timatic, how do you guarantee it's accuracy? or is accuracy not this "product"'s main concern?

I've collected the information from various websites including wikipedia.

I wouldn't ever trust information from Wikipedia on something as important as visas. That you would provide this information as even remotely authoritative on your website is a huge red flag.

Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

#42

Maybe the OP or the makers of this website don't know, but there is a definitive source of visa, passport, and transit permission info that the IATA already publishes to help airlines determine whether they should allow you on a flight. It's called Timatic. It includes such detail as country of travel origin, country of passport issuance, nationality, duration of stay, country of transit, visa/papers held. I would go…

Someday IATA will buy information as a service from them. HN is not for just latest biggest news, but also about when someone try something.

Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

#44

Maybe the OP or the makers of this website don't know, but there is a definitive source of visa, passport, and transit permission info that the IATA already publishes to help airlines determine whether they should allow you on a flight. It's called Timatic. It includes such detail as country of travel origin, country of passport issuance, nationality, duration of stay, country of transit, visa/papers held. I would go…

I really don't see the why the negativity. While I agree that there's Timatic, there is nothing wrong in making something else that serves the same purpose. By your logic, every duplicate service in this world can be questioned.

> It includes such detail as country of travel origin, country of passport issuance, nationality, duration of stay, country of transit, visa/papers held.

Would have been nice had you commented this as a suggestion without that bashful tone, just my 2 cents.

Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

#45

Maybe the OP or the makers of this website don't know, but there is a definitive source of visa, passport, and transit permission info that the IATA already publishes to help airlines determine whether they should allow you on a flight. It's called Timatic. It includes such detail as country of travel origin, country of passport issuance, nationality, duration of stay, country of transit, visa/papers held. I would go…

I agree on most of your points but just because there's a hard to use sub site on some airlines dealing with that doesn't mean there can't be an alternative. This site is probably not it based on the comments about the accuracy but there might be others available or coming in the future.

On top of that if people travel by train or other means it's not that obvious to look on the website of some airline.

Also it's someone sharing their site in a Show HN, constructive feedback (missing data, wrong information) would be helpful but "Why was this even a website worth posting about?" is not.

Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

#46
post #18

what's your data source? if it's not timatic, how do you guarantee it's accuracy? or is accuracy not this "product"'s main concern?

I've collected the information from various websites including wikipedia.

How are you planning to keep it up to date ?

Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

#47
post #14

Where did you get these phone numbers (for the United States)? > Police - 999 > Ambulance - 997 > Fire - 998 > Traffic police - 993 Mobile phones - 112 or 911 > Non-emergency ambulance - 1777 > Police hotline - 1800 255 0000 > Traffic police - 6547 0000 None of them seem to be correct, except for 911. In the United States, 911 is the same for police, ambulance, fire, and "traffic police". Also, non-emergency ambulanc…

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Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

#48
post #40

Cool site. However, I found that it seems to search/replace "us" with "United States" in certain places where it's not expected, e.g.: "A bUnited Statesiness visa requires an invitation from a company..."

Otherwise known as the "clbuttic mistake":

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/266...

Re: Show HN: IAvisa – Explore visa requirements worldwide

#50

Maybe the OP or the makers of this website don't know, but there is a definitive source of visa, passport, and transit permission info that the IATA already publishes to help airlines determine whether they should allow you on a flight. It's called Timatic. It includes such detail as country of travel origin, country of passport issuance, nationality, duration of stay, country of transit, visa/papers held. I would go…

Apologies for negativity in my post. I did not realize that OP him/herself had made this website and might have been a first effort.

Still, I think my points are valid. Unless this is a personal hobby or tinkering effort, I would advise the OP to invest his/her time on something that is sustainable and not already covered at 10x the expertise by an existing service (in a relatively stable industry, more importantly).

The country content pages contain 6 lines that look like the OP wrote them personally. That is not something that smacks of reliability.

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