Development WG's famous to do list

[DrGreenTom]

A ranking of cities?

Sounds nice and simple in principle, but things get complicated when there are alternative spellings (and downright typos) for city names; Bru, Brusel, Brussek, Brussel, Brussel/bruxelles, Brussels, Bruxelles, Bruxelles/brussel, Bryssel, Brysseli .. Of course it doesn't mean that such stats are impossible to generate, just that it's a bit more complicated than one might initially think.

i don't want to play wise guy, but if you make the search on the postal code instead of name of city ? I admit it's a problem for larger cities as they combine several codes.

[emmem]

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i don't want to play wise guy, but if you make the search on the postal code instead of name of city ? I admit it's a problem for larger cities as they combine several codes.

The use of postal code might look less complex, but IMHO it isn't. For instance for a Belgium city like Antwerp you can enter:

2000
B2000
BE2000
B-2000
BE-2000

In the Netherlands there is a suffix after the postal code wich designates a part of the city.

1000AA
1000AB

And in Ireland there are no postal codes at all.

[avij]

Oh yes, I forgot one:

• Explaining how all those 165 todo list items are going to be implemented takes an enormous amount of time

No offence, though

i don't want to play wise guy, but if you make the search on the postal code instead of name of city ? I admit it's a problem for larger cities as they combine several codes.

That's indeed a problem, for example the city where I live has about 100 postal codes. And searching by zip code doesn't always help either, a common error is to enter something as the city name and then use the zip code from some other city.

This isn't really that big of a problem though. Typos can be corrected from the database, and a simple "connection" table can be created for those (relatively) few cases where there are several valid spelling options for a city name.

[querty]

Thanks to Avij or the person who did this. Now everyone can see which place he has on the international rank. Great! Thanks!

[Aaron]

Thanks to Avij or the person who did this. Now everyone can see which place he has on the international rank. Great! Thanks!

Yes, I like it too! Very nice!

I just would like to get visible the city specific ranking lists. It would be nice to have on these lists the name, postal code and amount of notes. I think the city name (and probably also the postal code) could be added on the normal ranking lists. There is definitely enough of space for that and it would make it easier to read the list as there would not be so long distance between the name and amount of notes.

I would like to have also the personal diffusion pies - it would be nice to see an overview from which countries do my notes come from.

After we have got these characters, I would be happy and full satisfied ...for a moment.

[Ernst]

This is really cool, now I know that I am not so far from the international top 330, and finally number one somewhere (my city )!

[Fjon]

I'm currently 666th Internationally

[Batavorum]

Compliments from me tooooooo

What a nice surprise. Avij thank you and don't ever say wat you are about to improve, becouse such a surprise is (almost) as nice as a sudden hit

[Annie_in_exile]

Thanks to Avij or the person who did it -- Now everyone can see which place he has on the international rank.

Me too say thanks! Just one question: Am I right when I assume that all the notes entered by one person accumulate to the city which one has given as "homebase"? So if you're on holiday and enter notes in other cities and even other countries, you can be the king of the hill of your home town when you come back? (Not that I'm talkin'bout myself, no-ho! )

[N0W1K]

Many thanks!!!!

I didn't notice the changes.... I started to read the post few days ago, but not continue....

It's nice to see the place that we are in the ranking (567th for me)

Don't you think it would be interesting to see that p.e. I'm the 5th in the city rank of how many from my city??? or p.e. I'm the 12th in the country rank of how many from my country??? Spain doesn't have a lot of users and it's easy to know how many Spaniers are here.... but what about another countries with lot of users???

Maybe anyone gave the same idea before

[Fons]

Very very nice new statistics!!
Thank you

[avij]

You're welcome Frankly, I just had to implement something nice so that there would be something positive in the news, in addition to the news that some of the support email was lost. Nice that you liked the new feature

Am I right when I assume that all the notes entered by one person accumulate to the city which one has given as "homebase"? So if you're on holiday and enter notes in other cities and even other countries, you can be the king of the hill of your home town when you come back?

You're absolutely correct. Perhaps it'd make more sense if it counted only those notes that you've entered in that particular city. I think I'll change it that way, unless someone objects strongly.

[Aaron]

You're absolutely correct. Perhaps it'd make more sense if it counted only those notes that you've entered in that particular city. I think I'll change it that way, unless someone objects strongly.

I do. I think it is better the ranking position tells the amount of the notes the user has logged altogether no matter where. Besides, it would go too complicated otherwise. If you log a huge amount of notes you have got in a small village where you visited, you would be the number one somewhere else than in the place where you live.

It would make more sense to make a separate list of towns/cities/municipalities where have been logged most notes and who are the main users who have done that. But maybe making that kind of a list would need so much work that it would not become true in the near future.

[DrGreenTom]

i totally agree with Aaron

[Fons]

I don't know if it's easy to do it but maybe there should something like:

for example:

International ranking: 238 of 35000
National ranking: 442 of 6000
Ranking City: 2 of 50

So we can see how many user are below you.