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

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Here's a spreadsheet (on google docs) that pretty much fulfills the same need: http://goo.gl/RXSQk You just enter any airport code in the country where you are from, and any airport code in your destination country, then you get the visa information. To OP: seems like there's quite a bit of information missing, you could try scraping it from the link on that spreadsheet

That's actually using Delta's account for Timatic data. I doubt they'd look kindly on my scraping it.

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

#92
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…

To be honest, I don't think that easy/difficultis that helpful, especially when people usually know where they want to go. Although this text-based answer is not as impressive visually, and could be improved with automatic linking or perhaps using a map to select origin and destination countries, I think it's better to give the information in textual form to avoid misunderstandings.

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

#93
Amazing idea, but you probably need more data. I got married recently and we haven't got around to our honeymoon yet. I did a few queries which were relevant to me and they didn't have any information. (Indian citizen, tried cyprus, egypt, indonesia with no results. A few other results were helpful).

Also, like someone mentioned, a map showing all the areas you can visit without visas would be much more helpful.

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

#94
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…

American citizen should be aliased as well. When I see a list of words like Afghan, Albanian, and Armenian, it makes me think the list describes nationalities as adjectives, not country names. If you ask most US citizens which adjective they'd use to identify their nationality, they'll say American.

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

#95

Amazing idea, but you probably need more data. I got married recently and we haven't got around to our honeymoon yet. I did a few queries which were relevant to me and they didn't have any information. (Indian citizen, tried cyprus, egypt, indonesia with no results. A few other results were helpful). Also, like someone mentioned, a map showing all the areas you can visit without visas would be much more helpful.

Indonesia doesn't give any results for a US citizen either:

http://www.doineedavisafor.com/visa/us-citizen/travelling/in...

I was in Bali last year. You give them $25 at the airport and they give you a temporary visa, valid for 30 days. There's an ATM at the Hong Kong airport that pays out in US dollars, in case you need cash for the visa. Yes, the visa fee is 25 USD.

Confirmation here:

http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_2052.html

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

#96
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…

I would disagree. My use case is usually either "I'm considering a vacation in Elbonia, would they let me in", or "OMG, I have a work trip to Elbonia next week, should I get some visa or what?" For both, the big map is useless and the API provided is perfect. Only problem it doesn't cover all countries...

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

#98
post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is correct, work visas are restricted, tourist visas however are not required and I am not aware of any such requirement between any two EU member states. I haven't used my passport in years, I use my Romanian ID card whenever I travel in the EU (and it is my understanding that any EU citizen can travel - for business or pleasure - within the EU without visas or even a passport).

I'll add that information shortly - for things like EU citizens travelling in the EU, I try to put a little more information than just "no tourist visa is required".

You also don't need a visa for UK -> Switzerland.

Switzerland is also Schengen so you don't even need a passport to enter from other Schengen members (which unfortunately excludes the UK)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area

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

#99
post #50
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.

It looks great. Sadly I couldn't find Singapore in this map (well, it has 182 countries listed), but yeah that may happen when we try to cluster all the information in one single page.

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

#100

Amazing idea, but you probably need more data. I got married recently and we haven't got around to our honeymoon yet. I did a few queries which were relevant to me and they didn't have any information. (Indian citizen, tried cyprus, egypt, indonesia with no results. A few other results were helpful). Also, like someone mentioned, a map showing all the areas you can visit without visas would be much more helpful.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visa_requirements_for_Indian_ci...
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