Comments on: 2.4 million places to go!

By: Ludovic

Ludovic — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:18:23 +0000

Yes, this is a good idea -places like EuroDisney should be added: many business conferences take place there and there’s no reason Orlando’s Mickey Evil Kingdom is there but not the one in Europe!

Also, would be great if Dopplr understood UK Postcodes in the Location field as they can be pinpointed on a map to the side of a street block, even to individual buildings in some places.

By: pete

pete — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:05:03 +0000

Very cool. The Gazetteer solves gnarly problem that many. many online travel sites struggle with and few handle elegantly.

Would Dopplr license this disambiguation logic out to other travel sites?

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:32:10 +0000

Peculiar aim taken…..funny…the gazetteer have to play a vital role here.Wish you best of luck.

By: peter honeyman

peter honeyman — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:06:50 +0000

love it! \(^_^)/

By: mateo

mateo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:31:32 +0000

Hiya

I have noticed this bug too… place names are in there but airport codes are not. Examples: SXM, GND, and FTE.

Cheers!

By: Matt Biddulph

Matt Biddulph — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:24:20 +0000

Alan,

Sorry to hear our system isn’t working quite right for you. For some reason Leh isn’t showing up in searches and so the autocomplete isn’t suggesting it. It is in the database, however: http://www.dopplr.com/place/in/leh

If you start at that page and hit “Add a trip” on the top right of the page, it should work. When you add a trip starting from a place page, the autocomplete doesn’t try to step in. We’ll try to find out why Leh isn’t in the search index.

Matt.

By: alan jones

alan jones — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:05:57 +0000

It would be great if Dopplr could moderate the fanaticism of its auto-lookup feature now that you’ve implemented the Geonames lookup. Frinstance, I’m going to Leh, which is in the Ladakh region of India. Dopplr assumes I mean the “LEH” airport code and autocompletes my entry as Le Havre, France. That’s sub-par!

So, thinking I can second-guess Dopplr, I find the airport code for Leh, which is “IXR”. But then Dopplr decides that it should autocomplete my entry by choosing what it thinks is the nearest “big city” which it nominates as Jamshedpur. Sorry Dopplr, but selecting Jamshedpur for Leh is like selecting Houston for Seattle – the other side of the country!

Never mind that there are a great many bigger cities closer to Leh than Jamshedpur, it would be much smarter of Dopplr to bring up a list of likely matches than just select one it thinks is best.

I understand that what you’re striving for is ease of use, but this is as close to ease of use as Leh is to Jamshedpur!

By: Jay Lee

Jay Lee — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:55:26 +0000

Since this is all about traveling, there must be Travel Agency or Travel Industry databases with tourist destinations. May destinations may be resorts in the middle of nowhere.

By: Eetu

Eetu — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 21:14:16 +0000

I totally agree with Carl.
This way I could extend the use of Dopplr to where I’m currently always..

And Dopplr rules!!!

By: Carl Morris

Carl Morris — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:54:30 +0000

How about including musical festivals? Each is like a temporary mini-city in itself, particularly the outdoor ones…

Why stop there? How about trade shows, expos and the like?

Congrats on a great service!