Hello guys, Place2Go.org <http://www.places2go.org>: is a new site i have just released, still in beta. It allows you to store your favorite places in your home town or anywhere in the world. The initial idea was to do something like delicious but for physical places. You add places you like and want to eventually go back some day. Also as locations, can be defined as private or public (being public the default), other people can search them and store them in their own list of favorite places. To add a new place you start by clicking in a spot in a google map. A find bar on top of the map allows you to go to a specific city easily. To each place you can: categorize with tags, add an address, add photos and add comments. When searching you can filter by: country, city and tags. Technically, the site is built on Rails and i try to use AJAX as much as possible to make it as simple to use as possible. I''m not a designer, so that was probably the most difficult part to me when building this site (i tried to keep it simple) but its still the part a like less. I''m more happy with the functional part i got done. As i said at the beginning, the site is still on beta, so please take a look at it and i would very much appreciate any comments you may have, including if you find it could be useful or not. You can send me any comment to contact-8JFhxT/CVYL6btRigL6N+A@public.gmane.org I''m attaching a few screenshots. thank you for listening, Pedro Costa. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Hello guys, Place2Go.org: is a new site i have just released, still in beta. It allows you to store your favorite places in your home town or anywhere in the world. The initial idea was to do something like delicious but for physical places. You add places you like and want to eventually go back some day. Also as locations, can be defined as private or public (being public the default), other people can search them and store them in their own list of favorite places. To add a new place you start by clicking in a spot in a google map. A find bar on top of the map allows you to go to a specific city easily. To each place you can: categorize with tags, add an address, add photos and add comments. When searching you can filter by: country, city and tags. Technically, the site is built on Rails and i try to use AJAX as much as possible to make it as simple to use as possible. I''m not a designer, so that was probably the most difficult part to me when building this site (i tried to keep it simple) but its still the part a like less. I''m more happy with the functional part i got done. As i said at the beginning, the site is still on beta, so please take a look at it and i would very much appreciate any comments you may have, including if you find it could be useful or not. You can send me any comment to contact-8JFhxT/CVYL6btRigL6N+A@public.gmane.org I''m attaching a few screenshots. http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/351638046_5e592a87d2_o.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/351638048_501596c416_o.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/351638051_78b319fe10_o.jpg thank you for listening, Pedro Costa. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
DOH! Have a look at http://www.43places.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
I''m aware of this site. But I do believe the sites are different, despite they may have some common things to. thanks to bring it up anyway. On 1/9/07, linus1412 <linus141275-PkbjNfxxIARBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > DOH! > > Have a look at http://www.43places.com > > > > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
I like the GoogleMap integration though I wonder if the maps can display faster. Looks like we have some similar ideas and I had considered a similar domain name before MeandmyCity.com. Best wishes, -- Long http://MeandmyCity.com/ - Free, searchable business directory for local communities http://edgesoft.ca/blog/read/2 - No-Cookie Session Support plugin for Rails --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Hi Andreas, I considered using a gis based on webservices but the ones I could find where either limited somehow or paid. So I have built my own database of cities in the world running on mysql. Its now a already large base, with around 3 millions cities. I expect to improve it as more places are added by users. regards, Pedro. On 1/9/07, Andreas Roedl <andreas-kGwtGZEcz7s@public.gmane.org> wrote:> Hey Pedro, > > Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2007 15:36 schrieb Pedro Costa: > > > Technically, the site is built on Rails and i try to use AJAX as much as > > possible to make it as simple to use as possible. > > What else are you using? Do you use PostGIS or any other "spatial enabled" > database in the background? > > > Greetings! > > Andreas >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Pedro Costa wrote:> Hello guys, > > Place2Go.org: is a new site i have just released, still in beta. > > It allows you to store your favorite places in your home town > or anywhere in the world. The initial idea was to do something like > delicious but for physical places. > > You add places you like and want to eventually go back some day. Also > as locations, can be defined as private or public (being public the > default), other people can search them and store them in their own > list of favorite places. > > To add a new place you start by clicking in a spot in a google map. A > find bar on top of the map allows you to go to a specific city easily. > > To each place you can: categorize with tags, add an address, add > photos and add comments. > > When searching you can filter by: country, city and tags. > > Technically, the site is built on Rails and i try to use AJAX as much as > possible to make it as simple to use as possible. > > I''m not a designer, so that was probably the most difficult part to me > when building this site (i tried to keep it simple) but its still the > part a like less. I''m more happy with the functional part i got done. > > As i said at the beginning, the site is still on beta, so please take > a look at it and i would very much appreciate any comments you may > have, including if you find it could be useful or not. > > You can send me any comment to contact-8JFhxT/CVYL6btRigL6N+A@public.gmane.org > > I''m attaching a few screenshots. > > http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/351638046_5e592a87d2_o.jpg > http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/351638048_501596c416_o.jpg > http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/351638051_78b319fe10_o.jpg > > thank you for listening, > > Pedro Costa.Two things, the first one is: you said > Place2Go.org: is a new site i have just released, still in beta. How do you expect people to go to your website if the url provided (Place2Go.org) doesn''t exist? Also, its speed is very very low, it takes a bunch of time to load the page. Are you running it on FastCGI? - Bob -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
Hi Bob, First, thanks for bringing that up! I don''t know how I could miss that. The correct address: http://www.places2go.org Second, yes I''m running the site in FastCGI. What page in particular did you found it slow? Its not super fast but it worked reasonable well in the tests i made, like less than 1 second for the list of places page (excluding the map, that could take like 1 sec more). I still don''t know why, but i also found it runs a little slower with IE. regards, Pedro. On 1/9/07, Bob <rails-mailing-list-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org> wrote:> > Pedro Costa wrote: > > Hello guys, > > > > Place2Go.org: is a new site i have just released, still in beta. > > > > It allows you to store your favorite places in your home town > > or anywhere in the world. The initial idea was to do something like > > delicious but for physical places. > > > > You add places you like and want to eventually go back some day. Also > > as locations, can be defined as private or public (being public the > > default), other people can search them and store them in their own > > list of favorite places. > > > > To add a new place you start by clicking in a spot in a google map. A > > find bar on top of the map allows you to go to a specific city easily. > > > > To each place you can: categorize with tags, add an address, add > > photos and add comments. > > > > When searching you can filter by: country, city and tags. > > > > Technically, the site is built on Rails and i try to use AJAX as much as > > possible to make it as simple to use as possible. > > > > I''m not a designer, so that was probably the most difficult part to me > > when building this site (i tried to keep it simple) but its still the > > part a like less. I''m more happy with the functional part i got done. > > > > As i said at the beginning, the site is still on beta, so please take > > a look at it and i would very much appreciate any comments you may > > have, including if you find it could be useful or not. > > > > You can send me any comment to contact-8JFhxT/CVYL6btRigL6N+A@public.gmane.org > > > > I''m attaching a few screenshots. > > > > http://farm1.static.flickr.com/144/351638046_5e592a87d2_o.jpg > > http://farm1.static.flickr.com/163/351638048_501596c416_o.jpg > > http://farm1.static.flickr.com/140/351638051_78b319fe10_o.jpg > > > > thank you for listening, > > > > Pedro Costa. > > > Two things, the first one is: > > you said > Place2Go.org: is a new site i have just released, still in > beta. > > How do you expect people to go to your website if the url provided > (Place2Go.org) doesn''t exist? > > Also, its speed is very very low, it takes a bunch of time to load the > page. Are you running it on FastCGI? > > - Bob > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > >--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---