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Re: Show HN: Hewell, a travel app powered by WikiData

#11

Post by code51 »

Hi there. I installed this and here's some feedback: I can't have any idea of the app because of my location. My experience can be summed up as: cold start. Why are you limiting the user with GPS location? Maybe I want to get an idea about a place I dream of traveling. Within: 15 km cannot satisfy this need. Plus if you suggest me to try "More: Within 15 km", maybe you can show a single-tap button to do it? I feel it's tiring to read the small text, understand it, don't know it (since I didn't go to preferences screen yet) and there update and come back. Bad UX.

Congrats for the launch.

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#13

Post by mcjiggerlog »

This is really cool! I think this is a really under-serviced space and there's a lot of room for innovation here.

I started making https://waystops.com a while back in a similar vein, although it's more aimed at higher-level exploration of destinations and places to visit than local things to do. I use the wikivoyage dataset to power a lot of it; you may want to check that out too as there is a lot of useful data in there.

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#14

Post by Amorymeltzer »

For what it's worth, Wikipedia has a page that will actually show you articles nearby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby

It's quite rudimentary and nowhere near as nice as this: just shows a simple, plain list. One nice thing is that it just resolves to coordinates, so if you happen to know coordinates of interest, you can just enter those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Nearby#/coord/40.7128,...

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#15

Post by werzum »

Hey, I like the premise of the app, but I face one major problem when using it (on an IPad 2019): once I have selected a place from the map view (so that I can review it, get the route etc.), it is not possible to go back to the map view. Am I missing something, or is this a bug?

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#16

Post by ComSubVie »

Looks great, just tried it.

One feature that is missing: "reload map" or something. It's only showing things near my "real location"; but I'd also like to explore different locations (e.g. a city I'd like to visit next weekend).

For example "Komoot" is doing that really nice for hiking routes and similar activites: explore at my location, explore near a given location, use the map, ...

Re: Show HN: Hewell, a travel app powered by WikiData

#17

Post by daijiobu »

mcjiggerlog wrote: post #13

This is really cool! I think this is a really under-serviced space and there's a lot of room for innovation here. I started making https://waystops.com a while back in a similar vein, although it's more aimed at higher-level exploration of destinations and places to visit than local things to do. I use the wikivoyage dataset to power a lot of it; you may want to check that out too as there is a lot of useful data in…

this is really great!

Re: Show HN: Hewell, a travel app powered by WikiData

#18

Post by sonicrocketman »

code51 wrote: post #11

Hi there. I installed this and here's some feedback: I can't have any idea of the app because of my location. My experience can be summed up as: cold start. Why are you limiting the user with GPS location? Maybe I want to get an idea about a place I dream of traveling. Within: 15 km cannot satisfy this need. Plus if you suggest me to try "More: Within 15 km", maybe you can show a single-tap button to do it? I feel it…

Thanks for the feedback! I intend to add a feature like that at some point. The version that’s out there now is very much an MVP.

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#19

Post by sonicrocketman »

ComSubVie wrote: post #16

Looks great, just tried it. One feature that is missing: "reload map" or something. It's only showing things near my "real location"; but I'd also like to explore different locations (e.g. a city I'd like to visit next weekend). For example "Komoot" is doing that really nice for hiking routes and similar activites: explore at my location, explore near a given location, use the map, ...

Thanks! Adding the ability to browse around is something I’d like to do eventually. This is the MVP.

Re: Show HN: Hewell, a travel app powered by WikiData

#20

Post by sonicrocketman »

werzum wrote: post #15

Hey, I like the premise of the app, but I face one major problem when using it (on an IPad 2019): once I have selected a place from the map view (so that I can review it, get the route etc.), it is not possible to go back to the map view. Am I missing something, or is this a bug?

Hmm. I will look into that. You should just be able to swipe down on the card to dismiss it.
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