Comments on: How Dopplr learns

By: Tom

Tom — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:18:00 +0000

Hi Dopplrs,
I just have a comment about my experience with the trips and carbon profile part of the website.
I have been travelling all through Europe at the moment, but my homecity is Sydney, Australia. At a couple of points during my trip, Dopplr assumed I was returning to Sydney in between trips to say, Paris and London. I could not resolve this, even by deleting the trips and recreating them. The map view of my trips looked bizarre, because I was hopping back and forth between Australia and Europe multiple times, which would kill even the most seasoned jet-setter. Further, my carbon profile was quite off because I had apparently made multiple trips to Australia and back by train.
Is there something that I’ve missed, or would it be possible to implement a feature so that each trip asks whether you were returning to your home city afterwards?
Otherwise I love the website, keep up the good work.
Cheers

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By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:31:36 +0000

Another tweak that seems to make sense to me:

Everything I’ve submitted so far has caused your system to guess that I am travelling to Canada, France.

First, now I know there’s a place called Canada, France. Thanks.

The reason it is guessing Canada France is because I’m sending Air Canada itineraries and they are sprinkled through out with the world “Canada”. So for now it appears that everything I send is going to have to be corrected to put my Dopplr page to a real location, not this small town in France.

By: Riccardo

Riccardo — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:56:01 +0000

Totally cool! Well done, really!

BUT…
Please please please please tweak the geocoder so that if I write Milano, Italy it actually gets the idea that I want to go in the second biggest city in that country (Milan) and not in a small village somewhere on the mountains :)

I guess what happens is that Milan (the city) is present in your database as Milan, Italy and Milano, Italia, while the small village is only there as Milano, Italy (not having an international name)… bit confusing, I know, sorry :)

Anyway, please, you would make at least one european commuter happy that way!

By: Fred Baker

Fred Baker — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:31:01 +0000

My view on a public list of where I am and where I am going is – why? I already expose this to those I want it exposed to: that’s why I use your service, and why I show the result to friends on facebook. Who that I haven’t authorized to see it is appropriate to show it to?

I realize that you have an opportunity to make revenue by exposing my travel details to people that might sell me services. Fine, include me in your aggregated statistics.