Accommodation info on EO

hi Folks,

I have been look at this for some time now, whilst there are a number of websites that cover this on the net there is no site that covers caravan sites fully.

Badgers is good but I find the "automated" style of the reports hard to follow, a section of this website with "plain language" reviews would be a usefull thing.

If David would care to enable such an area I'll submit a couple of places that I have been to in the last 12 months...

regards
John

Badgers??? What is that?
Rusty

Thanks.
Had never come across it but now it is bookmarked so I can come back and read the goodies.
Rusty

Glenn,

Public Holday in WA I am not meant to be in here but have a few mins to check up on the system.

We are currrently working on one such system. We are not limiting to caravan or camping however we are building a fully interactive places systems. We have 80 thousand places installed and we are in the backgroud writing som basic info and loading photo that we have in our library however this does not even scratch the surface of the system. We will need heaps of input from everyone to continue to build this system as we our selves have not ben to every place.

The Interactive functons will allow you to write stuff for each place in a similar fashion to the Road Conditions reports. However having said this my first pass of the project is to get it launched with the ability to allow updates from site users. I am going to launch places this week without any external update methods, then add exteranl updates, followed with Interactive feedback.

So it seems that this will be a perfect place to implement this database that you are suggesting - I guess for a place type of Caravan park or bush camp or whatever I could add a different set of fields to allow say a rating of the place etc.

Good suggestion see what happens when places is released and we can working towards the soution you are mentioning. As always all feedback and thoughts are very welcome.

Glenn,

An update - I have just added the ratings system to the Caravan park POI group in places - I also have one member of staff currently full time on Caravan park location entry so it will not be long before we have the data in place to support your reqest at least for caravan parks.

I will tonight or tomorrow add the feature displays for caravan parks which will show the features available at the caravan parks such as Dump point, pets allowed, bbq facilites, showers etc etc.

It is a big job but we will ge there, also the photo submissions system for places is getting very close and this will work on a pointplace credit system. I expect in the next week this will be turned on.

More as it happens.

Great stuff David. I'm sure the more interactive you make it , the more of the information we can put there ourselves which I'm sure many would enjoy doing.