Please try out my website (again)

bwana said:
First visit and that had no impact.
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Have you maybe changed your privacy settings in Safari to deny all location requests by default? Apple is all about denying permissions.

Alternatively you might have denied it at OS level.
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Have you maybe changed your privacy settings in Safari to deny all location requests by default? Apple is all about denying permissions.

Alternatively you might have denied it at OS level.
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RedViking said:
The jumpy feature gone, it is much better. Can now look at the website without getting a wedgy.
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Thanks boss :) I also added some TH headers for a little more context on the results screen. What do you think of the "share link" which gives you multiple options: view on map, drive (Google Maps), drive (Waze), walk and get directions? I figured that was the most intuitive way to give people a navigation link that satisfies all needs at once. Does it work for you?
 
So where does one need to use mapcodes?
Did you create the website just for fun?
 
skusku said:
So where does one need to use mapcodes?
Did you create the website just for fun?
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You can use mapcodes anywhere you want to. With mapcodes you can create addresses for precisely where you want, on or of offroad, and it is way shorter than GPS coordinates. Plus you'll see I've managed to integrate navigation via Google Maps and Waze. So there's a lot of good use cases for it. And yeah, fun ... I guess. It's been a lot of work lol, but it started as an idea I've kept refining over years.
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Ok so Mr Kabal, can you tell me what my website does? :p I'm kinda curious to know if you actually drove the car. I tried-ed to make it as simple as possible.
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Uhm it’s a tool for the pointless feature mapcodes.

You don’t take feedback well tbh.
 
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Foxhound5366 said:
So addresses are pointless huh. You never share addresses with anyone? Interesting.
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“What’s you address?”
“Give me a minute, I need to look it up. Ok, it’s ZAF CG.05Z”
“Huh?”
“Don’t worry, just install another app, or go to this random website, copy/paste that code in, and then it will give you the GPS coordinates, show on a map and have a button that will then open it in google maps”
“Huh, just give me your damn address and I‘ll paste it directly into google maps”
 
_kabal_ said:
“What’s you address?”
“Give me a minute, I need to look it up. Ok, it’s ZAF CG.05Z”
“Huh?”
“Don’t worry, just install another app, or go to this random website, copy/paste that code in, and then it will give you the GPS coordinates, show on a map and have a button that will then open it in google maps”
“Huh, just give me your damn address and I‘ll paste it directly into google maps”
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How do you paste an address into Google Maps if it's shared in your hypothetical telephonic or face-to-face conversation? Remember this is South Africa where most places don't have accurate street addresses (down to the level of optimal entrances or visitor parking bays), and they're also not language agnostic (so they'll be in isiZulu, or isiXhosa, or Sepedi, or ... just not exist at all, out in the middle of the N14 highway somewhere). I think you're deliberately being aggressive, and that's your choice, but it's not necessary or helpful.
 
Foxhound5366 said:
Remember this is South Africa where most places don't have accurate street addresses
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A few things...

1.) We also have crime in many of those areas without addresses so most people visiting a place like an informal settlement etc. will probably still prefer directions they can ask around for vs. having to have their phone out on display.
2.) You mention language agnosticism but have an access portal that's entirely in English.
3.) Presumably many of these places that don't have street addresses are rural areas, informal settlements etc. You're expecting many non-tech literate people to have the tech literacy to enable browser location settings etc. if they click the wrong button the first time?
 
saor said:
A few things...

1.) We also have crime in many of those areas without addresses so most people visiting a place like an informal settlement etc. will probably still prefer directions they can ask around for vs. having to have their phone out on display.
2.) You mention language agnosticism but have an access portal that's entirely in English.
3.) Presumably many of these places that don't have street addresses are rural areas, informal settlements etc. You're expecting many non-tech literate people to have the tech literacy to enable browser location settings etc. if they click the wrong button the first time?
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No website is everything to everyone, firstly. I'm not trying to offer that. Also you're thinking too small: this isn't just applicable to informal settlements. What about guest houses in the middle of the bushveld? The visitor's parking bay at your office complex (rather than just the front gate)? Mountain biking trails? That shop around the back of the big mall that noone can ever find? The exact parking entrance to use at the next concert at Coca Cola dome? Any farm at all? There are a lot of places where conventional addresses are non-existent, and cellphones are perfectly safe to use. As for the language issue, how many South African websites use an interface with multiple languages? So long as you know what to do on the website, you don't need to understand every word of it. I think it's sufficiently intuitive that the core functions on the homepage of www.overhere.co.za are accessible to the majority of people with smart phones who find their way around English websites every day in this country. The point is that an Afrikaans person (for example) may not even understand a street address in isiXhosa if heard spoken or seen written in isiXhosa, but everyone can understand and share alphanumeric mapcodes of on average four to five characters (you don't need the ZAF in South Africa of course - that's our country code).
 
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I don't have a problem with map codes.

But I would rather want to use it within an app such as Google maps, than go to a website.

Google Plus Code is already similar, but Google doesn't work so great for unmapped or off road, like hiking in the Drakensberg, or visiting a ghost town, or visiting friends in the rural area.

But at the same time I don't feel like looking up the map codes and plotting it out etc. and then share it. I will first need to explain to them how it works as well.

I understand why OP created the website and reasoning behind it, I am just not sure if it is convenient enough for me to replace my instructions in explaining where something is, even though the theoretically it should make more sense, in practice it feels like too much effort.

So I don't think the problem is the system, but rather people slow to adapt to it, unless it is really a breakthrough experience.


The other problem is that in the areas I do not have good roads and or rural, there is no reception as well, in other words can't access the website. Google Maps offline maps is more helpful here, even though with its sometimes limited data.
 
RedViking said:
I don't have a problem with map codes.

But I would rather want to use it within an app such as Google maps, than go to a website.

Google Plus Code is already similar, but Google doesn't work so great for unmapped or off road, like hiking in the Drakensberg, or visiting a ghost town, or visiting friends in the rural area.

But at the same time I don't feel like looking up the map codes and plotting it out etc. and then share it. I will first need to explain to them how it works as well.

I understand why OP created the website and reasoning behind it, I am just not sure if it is convenient enough for me to replace my instructions in explaining where something is, even though the theoretically it should make more sense, in practice it feels like too much effort.

So I don't think the problem is the system, but rather people slow to adapt to it, unless it is really a breakthrough experience.


The other problem is that in the areas I do not have good roads and or rural, there is no reception as well, in other words can't access the website. Google Maps offline maps is more helpful here, even though with its sometimes limited data.
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Well, mapcodes integrate into Google Maps right? So if you've got your offline Google Maps for an area, you can visit mapcodes around the area with no issue. I don't think it's so difficult to use either, especially when compared to GPS coordinates (which i still find in use on some websites) or rural addresses which are just more a case of "Farm 16, off the R21 near Cradock". Isn't 86P.FW5 the shortest possible address for that exact farm road in the middle of nowhere outside Vredefort? Even in its link form, I'd say this is a lot friendlier (and gives you more options as an end-user): https://www.overhere.co.za/go/?t=ZAF&ma=86P&mb=FW5
 
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