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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?
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#62You 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.
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#63I 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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#64Text is very hard to read on that background, barely noticeable. I suggest changing background, or text color and making it slightly larger.
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#65Tried 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.
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#66I 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.
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#67Delta used to have an awesome frontend for Timatic (the system that all of the airlines use for determining their own liability in visa requirement issues) that I used exclusively. Sadly, it seems they've removed it from their new site. I was able to find a similar offering[1] for free on Gulf Air's site, though. A nice frontend to Timatic would be awesome, but I suspect that the licensing is too pricey... [1] http:/…
0 – 500 transactions: Included in Fixed Fee - EUR 499/yr
501 – 100,000 transactions: EUR (€) 0.1299 per transaction
100,001 – 600,000 transactions: EUR (€) 0.1166 per transaction
600,001 – 1,100,000 transactions: EUR (€) 0.1033 per transaction
1,100,001 – 1,600,000 transactions: EUR (€) 0.0888 per transaction
1,600,001 – 2,100,000 transactions: EUR (€) 0.0816 per transaction
2,100,001 onwards: EUR (€) 0.0743 per transaction
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#68For anyone that's wondering, there's data for about 60-odd countries in there at the moment, and I'm adding more every day.
But you know what they say about ideas and execution. Good on you for executing :)
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#69I 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.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1089.html#e...