Hey folks, just throwing out another idea here to see if people would be interested before I start investing a lot of time into it.
This time, I have a revised idea based on a previous project that I tried, the "StP Atlas". For those that don't remember, this was a section of the website where folks could post locations of interest to other travelers. Anything from abandoned locations to interesting places to explore, to useful things to know while in a particular city. It was pretty broad in it's scope, and after about 6 months only 2-3 locations had been posted, so I shut it down and wrote it off as a failure since it seemed to be an answer to a problem no one had.
Since I still own a (paid) license to the addon, I'd like to propose a different direction for that project with similar goals. Tightening the scope of the project a bit, the idea this time around would be to provide a space where users could create pages for towns/cities/villages they are familiar with or come across in their travels. These guides would be a compilation of what to see, what to do, where to eat, how to get around town, where to sleep, etc. I'm open to any other categories folks want information on as well.
So (hopefully) a StP user would come along and hit the "add location" button and fill out whatever info they can, and later other users can either edit that info or comment on the page and contribute more information. These locations would be divided into categories by region/country and further sortable by almost any criteria we want, such as star rating (from reviews of that location -- a separate thing you can do from commenting), state, number of comments, etc... the criteria available for sorting is pretty broad.
here's a decent example someone contributed on the previous version of this:
So yeah, if folks thinks this is something that would be useful let me know. Is this something you would contribute to? Even if you wouldn't, please vote in the poll (you can choose multiple options) so i know whether to waste my time or not. Not trying to be negative here, just saying, this failed once already so if folks aren't going to use it, I need to take it off my plate of StP 'things to do' so I can work on other StP projects.
This time, I have a revised idea based on a previous project that I tried, the "StP Atlas". For those that don't remember, this was a section of the website where folks could post locations of interest to other travelers. Anything from abandoned locations to interesting places to explore, to useful things to know while in a particular city. It was pretty broad in it's scope, and after about 6 months only 2-3 locations had been posted, so I shut it down and wrote it off as a failure since it seemed to be an answer to a problem no one had.
Since I still own a (paid) license to the addon, I'd like to propose a different direction for that project with similar goals. Tightening the scope of the project a bit, the idea this time around would be to provide a space where users could create pages for towns/cities/villages they are familiar with or come across in their travels. These guides would be a compilation of what to see, what to do, where to eat, how to get around town, where to sleep, etc. I'm open to any other categories folks want information on as well.
So (hopefully) a StP user would come along and hit the "add location" button and fill out whatever info they can, and later other users can either edit that info or comment on the page and contribute more information. These locations would be divided into categories by region/country and further sortable by almost any criteria we want, such as star rating (from reviews of that location -- a separate thing you can do from commenting), state, number of comments, etc... the criteria available for sorting is pretty broad.
here's a decent example someone contributed on the previous version of this:
So yeah, if folks thinks this is something that would be useful let me know. Is this something you would contribute to? Even if you wouldn't, please vote in the poll (you can choose multiple options) so i know whether to waste my time or not. Not trying to be negative here, just saying, this failed once already so if folks aren't going to use it, I need to take it off my plate of StP 'things to do' so I can work on other StP projects.