How many markets per area?

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A map visualization of periodic markets in different cities.

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How many markets per area? #116

Closed namnatulco closed 4 years ago

namnatulco commented 8 years ago

In Ulm we're currently thinking about submitting markets for neighboring areas (cities like Langenau, and Neu-Ulm). We current have Ulm and Neu-Ulm, because they're commonly considered one "city", but we also saw that the Berlin group has markets far outside Berlin (including one beyond Potsdam). Did you already think about the area/how many cities will be included in the drop-down?

namnatulco commented 8 years ago

One idea we had is that we could split by state (which would be unfortunate in Ulm, but great for most other places).

namnatulco commented 8 years ago

... or alternatively we could include all of the data in a single map by default?

torfsen commented 8 years ago

I also think that our current approach (limit displayed markets to a single city + city selection dropdown) is reaching its limits.

I think we should show all markets on the map (filtered by now/today/all as before). To keep things clean and fast we can use marker clustering 1 2 on lower zoom levels. For maintenance reasons I'd prefer to keep the data sources separate, so we'd need a build step that aggregates them into a single file. That shouldn't be a problem. A single combined market "database" would also ease features like finding the nearest open market.

The dropdown should also be replaced, since it's just not useful anymore with the current number of cities. We've already discussed alternatives in #40, I think a combination of automatic geo-lookup and a mini-map with small markers for covered cities (not markets) could work well.

johnjohndoe commented 8 years ago

I personally do see a huge need to shorten the list of cities in the dropdown.

I assume that users select their city and inspect markets there.
I imagine no average user switches cities all the time.
Basically, the standard use case for the website is to visit the URL for a specific city - that's it.

Of course I have to tracking data to verify my thoughts. I am happy to read your thoughts about my point.

namnatulco commented 8 years ago

I think @torfsen's solution in #126 is a pretty good one; that also solves the problem with ulm/neu-ulm/nersingen (i.e., when do we want the user to switch cities to actually see relevant markets?).

johnjohndoe commented 4 years ago

I am now closing this issue due to inactivity over the last years. If anyone is interested in the topic we can re-open it at any time. Thank you.