Sadly I have not been doing any development on Pubs Galore for a while, I have been too busy. Which is a real pity as we have had some excellent new contributors on the site to mention a few Graham Mason, Peter Ashworth and T Valtojos (but there have been many more and we appreciate you all) have all been contributing regularly since just appearing on the site, which is fantastic to see.
I have not really been reciprocating my end of the deal, but I hope to get some work going behind the scenes again soon. A lot of the work I have planned revolves around allowing the members more control over the listings, so that they can do address corrections and pub closures without having to send feedback to us. Hopefully this will speed up the process and allow users to be credited with all the behind the scenes corrections they are already doing. I also want to rewrite the whole review system as it is now very dated.
In this vein though it is interesting to wonder how far we may actually take it, we already have a lot of users who are great advocates for their area, Mike Hewitt has basically been responsible for bringing Whitby up to speed, the McGraw's (1, 2) whilst doing most of England have lavished a great deal of attention on London. I hope that one day the site allows members to take on more responsibility for their adopted areas and give it even more personality. A long way off, but it would be great if we can get the site there.
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I would be carefull about as you say " allowing members to take on more responsibility for their adopted areas and give it even more personality " I have just found your very interesting site and checked out my local area in Melbourne, Derbyshire who ever recommendedor placed some of the pub here gave false info to locations I have corrected several for you. I get the feeling if they add a place by postcode it must be made clear it is the pub code not the person supplying haha this may of been the problem perhaps they were still suffering from a good night out when they recomended these places
Hi,
We have been in the office watching all those corrections. The mistakes are caused by the fact that our listings are quite old and the Post Office has updated all those postcodes since our listings were created. Sadly those old postcodes are now reallocated and with those pubs are showing the new postcode location.
So really it is just the fact that in that case we failed to sort out the postcodes (we did try to correct it wherever we knew about postcode changes before we set up the map bits of the site), rather than issues caused by user maliciousness or incompetence.
I actually think this is instead a great demonstration of how we would like people to take responsibility for the area by correcting the map points you have you have dramatically improved that area for all the users of the site.
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