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Mumsnet local is live - please have a look and add as many listings as you can!

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JustineMumsnet · 09/03/2007 14:44

Hello, hello,
Tech's feeling very brave and has said we can start playing with the new toy he's built us - Mumsnet local . The idea is that it's going to be a guide to all the best stuff for parents and kids in the UK, broken down by geographic area.

It is still very much in it's infancy and so we are not going to add navigation to it from the menu bars for a wee while whilst we (ie you pretty please!) refine and improve it. So please, please take a look and fill it up with lots of great listings because obviously it's not going to be much cop until it's got something in it, and right now it's a bit sad with only a couple of north london hotspots added .

By way of added incentive anyone who adds a listing will be entered into our competition to win a trip to fairy school

So please do take a look, add as much as you can and let us know of any problems/ suggested improvements.

Many cheers,
Mumsnet Towers

OP posts:
UnquietDad · 10/03/2007 15:13

Do recommendations have a Ponceiness Rating? If not, I demand one.

MNHQ
Tech · 10/03/2007 15:12

Hi Iota,
I've put it back (Wagamama). It had found its way to Leighton Buzzard......

Iota · 10/03/2007 14:22

don't worry LL - I put it back and added Giraffe, but now I can't find any ref to Wagamama at all - not just on the map

littlelapin · 10/03/2007 14:21

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Iota · 10/03/2007 12:42

OK Tech - Wagamama in MK - my first posting is no longer showing.

Where's it gone?

Nbg · 10/03/2007 12:38

Have added a couple but will put loads more in when I get a spare 5 mins because you dont have listings for out area.

MellowMa · 10/03/2007 12:27

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lissielou · 10/03/2007 12:18

added 2

ejt1764 · 10/03/2007 12:05

Tech,

Sorry, only just seen your response ...

It was St Fagan's Museum - Its address is:
St Fagan's National History Museum,
Cardiff,
CF5 6XB

... I managed to put it on by cheating a little bit (ie clicking on the map where I knew it was), but there are other places that are so big they have their own postcode - like Big Pit (address is just Torfaen and the post code).

Sorry to throw up a niggle! I think it's a great idea!

MNHQ
Tech · 10/03/2007 00:26

Hi, Yes it's expecting that to be Kingston upon Thames, rather than just Kingston. We can probably make the towns search search single words. I'll take a look at that.

Regards,
Tech

hatwoman · 10/03/2007 00:02

not sure if someone has said this but there's something not quite right about the "town,street or postcode" If I ented Kingston (a town) it comes up with hundreds of streets throughout the UK with the name Kingston in them and suggests I might want to modify by search

MNHQ
Tech · 09/03/2007 23:56

Hi MT, At the moment you can't. We'll put a fix in overnight so you can change the category when you do corrections.

Cheers,
Tech

Monkeytrousers · 09/03/2007 23:40

Sorry - proper TECH question - how do change the colour of the flag on the map if chosen incorretly at first?

CODalmighty · 09/03/2007 22:37

famous fives daddy not ib ooks
dosnt haev shed
uncle qentin is busy working ont eh manhattan project in the hsoue

morningpaper · 09/03/2007 20:44

It occured to me the other day that TECH is actually daddy from the Famous Five... in a SHED? INVENTING?

morningpaper · 09/03/2007 20:43

Ahhhh

You have to separate NURSERIES from PLAYGROUPS. They are totally different.

funnypeculiar · 09/03/2007 20:39

Aha - I clicked on the map to add address so didn't add anymore address info other than road (somehow assumed you'd magic this up..)- so yes, perhaps just some encouragement to fill in detail would solve it

MNHQ
Tech · 09/03/2007 20:36

Hi Funnypeculiar,

It shows as much of the address as the person enters. If they just put in a road, that's what you'd get.

I'll see how big a deal it would be to add "distance from you" to each item in the list on the right. It should be easy enough to do an "as the crow flies" distance (as long as you are logged in and have filled in your postcode).

The other thing we could look at is suggesting more complete addresses when the thing is filled in. We'll take a look at that too.

Regards,
Tech

CODalmighty · 09/03/2007 20:32

YPOU NEED A GOOD FOOD Section

FrayedKnot · 09/03/2007 20:26

Definitely hotels!

FrayedKnot · 09/03/2007 20:25

Definitely think you should add shops - am thinking more of farm shops, decent butchers, etc, and second hand baby shops, not where the nearest branch of Next is, lol

Also, could you add cafes to the "pubs / restaurants" section title?

lemonaid · 09/03/2007 20:22

I suggest hotels as another category...

hoxtonchick · 09/03/2007 20:22

cool, thanks tech & ML, have moved the pin. off to add more!

lemonaid · 09/03/2007 20:20

Why Scouts and Brownies but not Cubs or Guides? And if you're including them as separate categories there should be Woodcraft Folk as well, although maybe just one category of Scouting/Guiding/etc. would do it

FrayedKnot · 09/03/2007 20:16

Ooh I've added my first one.

I will send Ds to Fairy School, he won;t notice the oterhs are all girls. he loves pink.