Sightseer

Country & City Info Directory & Travel Guide.

Current Version

0.4.1

• Stores & Commercial added to travel routes
• Activities & Attractions added to travel routes
• Tidying of travel route codebase

Previous Versions

0.4

• Economy section added to country pages
• Climate & Geography section added to country pages
• Streaming of history page, fixing occasional 500 errors
• Tidying of dead code
• Style changes

0.3.9

• Travel and city routes combined. All info can now be found through the travel route
• Improved checks for potential missing data
• Style changes

0.3.8

• Changes to country page sorting system (Clicking a sort tab a second time will reverse sort)
• Changes to nature route image fetching
• Style changes

0.3.7

• Travel routes city limit updated (10 -> 18)
• Nature routes now feature images of local wildlife
• Removed a check that tested whether to add 'Nature' link to country page, nature page now available for all countries
• City routes fix to dead pages in places with repeating names, such as 'New York, New York'

0.3.6

• ./travel/city pages now have images of given city
• Updates to homepage
• Style changes

0.3.5

• Tourist & Sightseeing locations added to ./travel/city pages
• Accuracy of travel routes greatly increased by using coordinates instead of city names
• Nature route now accessible on many more pages

0.3.4

• More info on country selection page
• Country selection page can now be sorted (Alphabetically, Population Size, Area Size)
• Issue with place data fixed (Multiple word cities were being fetched as the first word, i.e. 'New York' -> 'New')
• Style changes

0.3.3

• Nature route added, featuring summary country flora and fauna
• Styling improved for cities routes

0.3.2

• Cities now have an independent route. This is composed into three sections, 'Cities', 'Towns', and 'Villages'.
• Folklore now extended with more detail if available. Fixing many 'single sentence' pages
• Photo route tailored to show more landscape/nature images and less map/flag images
• Travel route returns a limit of 10 cities (Previously it returned 30, with the lower 20 usually having no travel info)

0.3.1

• Cities now stream to travel pages, improving navigation speed
• Preloading disabled for travel pages, fixing 500 error

0.3

• Photos route now available via county pages. Displays country images
• Country celebrities now available via culture pages
• Country folklore summary now available via culture pages
• Toggles added for celebrities and recipes on culture pages
• Refactoring of culture pages
• Style changes

0.2.9

• Added toggle to hide news images
• Fixes to news route styling
• Culture route info now streams to the page, greatly increasing navigation speed
• News routes temporarily halted due to faulty API

0.2.8

• News route now available via country pages. Displays local news.
• Small changes

0.2.7

• Travel page now streams hotels and accommodations, greatly increasing navigation speed
• Country page now streams most info, increasing navigation speed
• Style changes

0.2.6

• Added recipes (ingredients, instructions and servings) related to given country (if applicable). Can be found in culture route
• Small changes

0.2.5

• History routes extended with more info
• Culture now has its own route, allowing more info and quicker country route loading
• Better style consistency

0.2.4

• Culture summary added to country routes
• Check added for wiki summary disambiguation

0.2.3

• Redesign and complete refactoring of country-page css
• 'Most populous cities' removed from countries page. (City info will be put in its own page, eventually)
• Small fixes

0.2.2

• Added culinary tradition to country routes
• Error handling for country driving side
• Style changes

0.2.1

• AI Generated Travel Info Chunk for every './cityName/travel' route
• Styles fixed to 'known-for' tabs on wide screens

0.2

• Images added to city travels routes
• 'Known-for' tags added to city travel routes
• Improvements to site for phone-based users
• Error fixes

0.1.9

• Fixed duplicate history blips
• Fixed name conflicts on traceback
• Style changes

0.1.8

• History routes added
• Webcams on country route removed (causing many errors)
• Style changes

0.1.7

• Travel route info no longer limited to only hotels
• Proper error handling for travel routes (whoops)
• Styling for travel routes

0.1.6

• Travel routes reopened
• Hotel data now displayed for cities (making it not ugly is a WIP)
• Other small fixes...

0.1.5

• Great improvements to routing
• Simply country data now fetched via Alpha3, fixing many problems. (eg. 'georgia' linking to 'south georgia island')
• Ghost continent route 'antarctic' fixed.
• Travel and history routes halted for time being

0.1.4

• Added country history page
• Country page load speed greatly improved
• WIP Travel page added to country routes

0.1.3

• Fixed styling on homepage
• Error catching for country data route

0.1.2

• SCSS added to better organize styling
• Improvement to routing speed
• Mobile support improved
• No longer pulling images from Unsplash

0.1.1

• Mobile Support
• Webcams Added
• Style Fixes

0.1

• Cities added
• Changes to Wiki article fetching
• Fixes to routing

0.0.5 --> 0.0.9

• Better stability
• More info added to country routes
• Troublesome folder removed

0.0.4

• More country info
• Pulling images from Unsplash

0.0.2 --> 0.0.3

• First deployment
• Much more info added to countries

0.0.1

• Homepage added
• Countries split by region
• Country list added

Data We Have

• Country name, common and official
• Country area size (sq km)
• Country capital info
• Country border info
• Country language info
• Country currency info
• Country domain info
• Country cuisine info
• Country culture info
• Country travel advisories
• Country UN status
• Country independence status
• Country landlocked status
• Country driving-side
• Country recipes
• Country photos
• Country celebrities
• Country flora & fauna
• Country wildlife photos
• Country general summary
• Country folklore summary
• Country climate summary
• Country geography summary
• Country economy summary
• Most populous cities in given country
• City general summary
• City coordinates
• City population
• City photos
• Hotels and other accommodations in a city
• Advisory data
• Hotels in a given city
• Accommodations in a given city
• Tourist Spots in given city
• Sightseeing locations in given city
• Historical locations in given city
• History summary
• History blips of given country
• Culture Summary
• Local cuisine culture
• Recipes relating to given country