Handy site, I have noticed the pagination doesn't seem to work though :(
Does it not work anywhere or in one specific area? I'll take a look into it straight away :)
Show HN: Find days out near you in the UK
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#22Useful, I'd definitely use it. Can you change the background color to something less gloomy? :)
It seems to vary wildly depending on monitors; on my Mac it's bright grass-green, on my desktop it seems to be more of a muted snot. It's on my list of things to fix!
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#23Now with much more data! I submitted my hobby project Days Out Near Me a few weeks back. I've tried to take on a lot of the great feedback I've had and I've made a number of big improvements to how it works. The site's goal is to aggregate a lot of events & venues for days out into one searchable database. It now grabs data from National Trust, English Heritage, The Forestry Commission, Cadw, and National Museum Wale…
This is a great site, will likely be very handy for me over the summer. Couple of things that immediately jumped out as useful additions for my particular use case: 1) A 'family friendly' filter on places 2) A 'kids' filter on events 3) A filter based on distance 4) Even better a filter based on how long it takes to drive to the event or the place (maybe using Google Maps directions estimates?) I'm definitely going t…
1/2: This is something I really want to implement, as finding family days out is one of my main goals.
3: In the works!
4: I've had this suggestion before and I think it'd be a great feature; I'm looking into it :D
Thanks for the feedback!
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Historic Scotland is the next source I'll be pulling in; I was up in Stirling last year and there's some seriously nice castles up there to visit. Ski centres are something I hadn't considered but would fit very well with the idea of the site. Thanks for the suggestions! :)
Actually, now I think of it, what I would really like is a site a bit like Geograph but for "places of interest" rather than just for photos. NB Geograph is awesome: http://www.geograph.org.uk/
I'm using Flickr's API for getting photos at the moment (it's actually a really good API), and I'd definitely like to give people a more visual way of browsing the places.
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#25Awesome project. One of those things I can see will be really useful.
One suggestion: make it responsive. The design lends itself well to mobilising: shrink the map view, put the columns into tabs, etc. This would be an even better resource for using when you are out and about, especially as it could use the HTML5 geolocation API to work out where you are and what is close by.
Great work!
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#26The green background is too dark to have black text on it, not enough contrast. Either make the background lighter or darker with white text.
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#27Awesome project. One of those things I can see will be really useful. One suggestion: make it responsive. The design lends itself well to mobilising: shrink the map view, put the columns into tabs, etc. This would be an even better resource for using when you are out and about, especially as it could use the HTML5 geolocation API to work out where you are and what is close by. Great work!
I toyed with the idea of making it responsive when I first built the layout but opted for a fixed design to save on time. It's a feature I'd really like to get into the site soon as I've already felt the pain of navigating it on my own phone.
Thanks for the great feedback :)
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#28The green background is too dark to have black text on it, not enough contrast. Either make the background lighter or darker with white text.
Thanks for the response!
I've mentioned in another comment that the green seems to vary wildly on different displays, so I'm looking into improvements I can make there.
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#29Very 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 different approach could work too (image search?).
Another possibility would be to add walks.
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#30Nice! 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 real life).