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