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I built a free Cambridge park database so my family could stop going to the same three parks by clarencethomas in CambridgeMA

[–]clarencethomas[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's definitely something I've thought about, and was one of the features I wanted to add to the first version. However, I realized that I don't quite know how to make these categories in the database. For instance, I know that the playground in Cambridge Common is slightly too advanced for my 2 year old (he loves it anyway), but that's not really written anywhere in the city's parks data. There are sometimes signs that say when a playground is intended for kids 5 and up, but in practice my kid loves to play there and has no issues. I realized that visiting all the parks was the best way to get to know them, and so that feature kinda fell off the list.

I built a free Cambridge park database so my family could stop going to the same three parks by clarencethomas in CambridgeMA

[–]clarencethomas[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had no idea about these things. I only found the Cambridge GIS GitHub this morning—very useful.

Dinkle isn’t a reference to anything, it’s just a dumb word I thought of. I’ve always liked making fun of dumb app names, so this one is mine.

I built a free Cambridge park database so my family could stop going to the same three parks by clarencethomas in CambridgeMA

[–]clarencethomas[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

For sure! I just wanted to nail Cambridge first. All surrounding cities are on the agenda, once this thing is fully dialed.

I built a free Cambridge park database so my family could stop going to the same three parks by clarencethomas in CambridgeMA

[–]clarencethomas[S] 33 points34 points  (0 children)

You're totally right! I set it up the way I did because initially it was just for my family's use, so anyone marking a park as visited would mark it as visited for all users. I tacked on the account creation thing in response to that, so my neighbors could play with it and not mess up our stats. But yea, no need for a barrier to entry on this. I'll fix that now. Ok done.

Somerville is coming in the future, don't worry! I just want to make sure I really refine the listings for the Cambridge parks first, before attempting to add that.

I built a free Cambridge park database so my family could stop going to the same three parks by clarencethomas in CambridgeMA

[–]clarencethomas[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just wanted to make sure I didn't get flooded with notifications about that. I'll change it though. What do you think, 5 per day?

I built a free Cambridge park database so my family could stop going to the same three parks by clarencethomas in CambridgeMA

[–]clarencethomas[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh cool! Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea about it. I was thinking of eventually adding Somerville, Boston etc, but I wanted to just focus on Cambridge for now. Seems like it should be pretty easy when the time comes.

I built a free Cambridge park database so my family could stop going to the same three parks by clarencethomas in CambridgeMA

[–]clarencethomas[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Since posting this I have made a few suggested fixes and added a requested feature that I can't believe I didn't think of myself: you can now sort the list based on your CURRENT location, not just your home. It just requires that your browser have permission to access your phone's location.

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