Ask HN: What do you want from an online travel guide?

Re:Ask HN: What do you want from an online travel guide? by jka on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @11:44AM (#9381714)

A way to say where I 'need' to be for various times during a trip (pre-planned events, arrival/departure times + places, any business meetings), and then to have suggestions for things to do in the between-times and spaces.

In other words, it's a routing problem - I have these fixed points in space + time - what interesting things/events exist in-between those and are routable?

(also needs to allow sensible amounts of time for food breaks, lots of buffer time to enjoy the surroundings, etc)

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want from an online travel guide? by kaylarose on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @12:33PM (#9382147)

This! It would be nice if the places recommended were aggregated from the typical go-tos for travel (Yelp, TripAdvisor) - rather than starting yet-another place for reviews/opinion content. Also potential integration or partnership with Rome2Rio and/or Uber transport suggestions.

Currently I am doing all this manually in various apps, and entering the data into TripIt (which is also sort of ugly).

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want from an online travel guide? by dzlobin on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @12:08PM (#9381916)

Have you watched The Layover on the Travel Channel? Its format is similar to what you describe.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you want from an online travel guide? by PennyWhistle on Wednesday April 15, 2015 @12:46PM (#9382245)

great idea. Do you want to be able to get public transit times and locations (bus stops etc) on a map?

How about adding all points of interest and having the system suggest the best way to plan for the day?

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