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Searchable, filterable, directories of information, and locations.
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Find my nearest... #115

Open willguv opened 3 years ago

willguv commented 3 years ago

PARK for a working group discussion

Croydon previously talked about ways to replace an aging directory of services http://maps.croydon.gov.uk/aya/pages/aya/aya.html

This needs proper discovery work. The main difference from directories is that users can enter a postcode, and the site provides the nearest results on a single page from a defined set of directories

For example, the nearest:

Dave Hampton explored similar themes at Brighton, see the following patterns

http://design.brighton-hove.gov.uk/website-pattern-library.php?p=address-lookup

http://design.brighton-hove.gov.uk/design-examples.php?p=SEN-map

http://design.brighton-hove.gov.uk/design-examples.php?p=parking-space-map

electronicdreamplant commented 3 years ago

User research done at Dorset, and verified by work at Essex on their Local Offer, is that users value seeing the distance to a facility to work out if it is feasible to visit it. We've used the Google Place API to return distance values and build this in to the results on a postcode search (https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/parking/find-a-carpark/find-a-car-park)