City360
I wrote this mashup application for my book originally but extended it during the Easter holiday weekend, spruced it up and made it more user-friendly (I hope) and changed it name to City360. The whole idea behind this app is to provide everything that you want to know about a city (hence 360 degree view on the city — corny name, I know).
So far what it can do is:
- Locate for you in an online map where the city is
- Give you information on nearby places of interest (click on the link and it will be shown on the map!)
- Tells you about the available hotels in the vicinity of the city
- Forecasts today’s and the next few day’s weather in that city
- Shows a mosaic of pictures taken by people on the Web, associated with this city (click on the picture to popup a bigger pic)
- Lets you convert your local currency to the city’s currency
- Tells you the current time at the city and compares it with your current location
Check it out at http://city360.saush.net
Let me know what else you think can improve this app!
The site isn’t working. After a while it shows the message:
Service not available
Connection timed out – connect(2)
Yeah, unforunately right after I published this blog post the server crashed and I couldn’t reach it until the morning. It’s working now though it’s a bit slow. I need to optimize the app again when I have some more time.
nice, but the “price” of the hotel seem ambiguous.
The prices are from Kayak. I didn’t really check it out though :) I assumed that the Kayak prices are correct.
Shaking my head, Sau! This is pretty neat. It’s a bit funny, though that when I typed Manila there wasn’t any reference regarding Malls on the Places tab. :)
Adding an ‘Events’ tab would be totally 360, I guess.
Best.
alain
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