- places2go.org: New RAILS website released.

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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@places2go.org.

I’m attaching a few screenshots.

thank you for listening,

Pedro Costa.

places2go_editview.JPG

places2go_list.JPG

places2go_search.JPG

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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@places2go.org.

I'm attaching a few screenshots.

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thank you for listening,

Pedro Costa.

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DOH!

Have a look at http://www.43places.com

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.