Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...? • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#51

Post by nisse72 » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 1:13 AM UTC

I like the idea, but the entries in the citizenship dropdown seem to be "not quite" sorted. Some examples of out-of-order entries:

Ivorian (between Costa Rican and Croatian), Salvadorian (between Egyptian and Equatorial Guinean), Burmese (between Mozambiquan and Namibian) etc.

[ edit ] Ah are they ordered by country name, not the adjective that's being shown? Unexpected and confusing.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#52

Post by jlangenauer » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 1:16 AM UTC

wting wrote: post #47

I don't understand the presentation. Allow the user to choose nationality from a drop down box, then show a world map colored various ways: - green no visa - blue for easy to obtain visas - red for difficult to obtain visas On a side note, it should probably be "United States citizen" and not "US". Also, US -> China is a very common route that requires a visiting / mailing your passport to a Chinese embassy to obtain…

Finding an actual authoritative source on Chinese visa requirements has been difficult - there's a lot of second hand information around, but nothing official that I can find.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#53

Post by grecy » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 1:20 AM UTC

This is awesome.

I'll get links to this from http://wikioverland.org shortly.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#54

Post by bigbang » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 1:22 AM UTC

This is awesome. Very useful. Also would be useful is a full list of countries that don't need a visa for, based on my citizenship.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#55

Post by archer174 » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 1:24 AM UTC

The US to India has a spelling error. Visa is spelled vist.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#56

Post by lancewiggs » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 1:27 AM UTC

prawn wrote: post #49

Tried Australian going to Morocco and China. "Sorry, we've no information available." Could've got more data in there before playing your "Show HN" card maybe.

and I had the same problem - New Zealander going to France. The answer, btw, is No visa required for New Zealanders in the Shengen agreement area.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#57

Post by vellum » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 1:27 AM UTC

You should put the US as the first choice in the drop down box, since that's where most of your traffic will come from. Later when you have more data, you could put the top 15 in the first choices.

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#58

Post by redact207 » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 1:30 AM UTC

GREAT idea. I travel with my girlfriend often and it's a massive pain to work out visa requirements in countries, especially with "com" companies now setting up pretending to be an embassy.

One issue though is how do you keep your database up to date? Some countries (eg Thailand) change their Visa requirements VERY often.

Good work!

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#59

Post by mmahemoff » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 1:32 AM UTC

udit99 wrote: post #50

wting wrote: post #47

I don't understand the presentation. Allow the user to choose nationality from a drop down box, then show a world map colored various ways: - green no visa - blue for easy to obtain visas - red for difficult to obtain visas On a side note, it should probably be "United States citizen" and not "US". Also, US -> China is a very common route that requires a visiting / mailing your passport to a Chinese embassy to obtain…

Your suggestion sounds exactly like Visamapper (www.visamapper.com) But DoIneedAVisaFor is a more direct way to answer the question if you already know your Destination.

I like your site, but why not show the color key below the map?

Re: Show HN: My side project – Do I need a visa for...?

#60

Post by neilk » Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 1:33 AM UTC

wting wrote: post #47

I don't understand the presentation. Allow the user to choose nationality from a drop down box, then show a world map colored various ways: - green no visa - blue for easy to obtain visas - red for difficult to obtain visas On a side note, it should probably be "United States citizen" and not "US". Also, US -> China is a very common route that requires a visiting / mailing your passport to a Chinese embassy to obtain…

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