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• Through GPS - Coordinates and the time of those Happy Hours it is able to calculate the optimal route from one pub/bar/... to the next Happy-Hour-Location. So you have the shortest way and the exact times, when you have to go to the further locations.
  Maybe adding locations of cigarette vending machine, ATMs or snack stalls.
  Information could be collected through a web-spider, but i think it's not as dynamic and effective as adding information to the database collcetively.

  posted by Christoph Spoerk 6 months ago

• GPS - Coordinates of the locations should be stored to accomplish proximity searches in the mobile application

  posted by Martin Tocauer 10 months ago

• you could import the results into a seperate "to confirm" area in the database, for moderation purposes for example.

  posted by Martin Tocauer 10 months ago

• sounds more reasonable, but maybe that's too much a game of luck ... not sure tough, needs some research i guess.

  posted by Simon Repp 10 months ago

• IMHO, parsing is not a bad idea. Maybe parsing google search results ?

  posted by Martin Tocauer 10 months ago

• regarding website parsing: i don't think it makes sense to write even just one parser!

  most bars don't have their happy hour times online anyway, and you'd have to write a custom parser for every bar/website, just entering the information manually probably is a 100-10000 times faster and less error prone anyway =)

  posted by Simon Repp 10 months ago

• that is nice idea - you could bring in a parser that looks for "happy hour" on bars webpages to find them easily and put them into the database -> with user validation of course to keep high quality in the DB.

  and the bars show up on a google map as well =)

  posted by Michael Schwanzer 10 months ago

• the site should also have a google-maps interface for mobile applications.

  Main target should be the mobile application.

  posted by Martin Tocauer 10 months ago