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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:
moondog · 09/03/2007 20:12

Great idea.
(You must however do something about that errant apostrophe-see 'it's infancy'-though Justine!)

Marina · 09/03/2007 20:10

Oh and definitely shops - I want to add a couple of good ones locally (God knows there aren't many so they deserve the publicity)

Also, maybe a controversial one, but do you want to add SCHOOLS to the categories Tech? Given we can be anonymous if we want, we could really put Ofsted Reports and SATS in their proper context...

Marina · 09/03/2007 20:08

Am loving this idea...can I poncetastically suggest category listings for heritage attractions such as castles, stately homes, NT and EH properties? They don't really belong in Museums and Miscellaneous seems a bit limp

LazyLine · 09/03/2007 20:07

Where is this sweetie shoppe Twiglett?

MNHQ
Tech · 09/03/2007 20:06

Hi Hoxtonchick,

That does happen. If you do the listing from scratch rather than clicking the map to start it, then we put the pin where the postcode you entered is.

The issue really is that there are no freely available "geocoders" (things that know exactly where an address is) in Britain. Even Postcode locations are copyright of the Royal Mail, and we have to pay to use them.

Having said that, you can just move the pin on the map to the right spot and it will save the new position.

Cheers,
Tech

MegaLegs · 09/03/2007 20:02

HC I just moved the map pin to the right location - don't know if that's right though.

MegaLegs · 09/03/2007 20:01

Have added a local open air museum but my four boys don't wanna go to fairy school - could I get away with it at 6'2" - I got some wings [innocently hopeful emoticon]

hoxtonchick · 09/03/2007 20:00

i've done a listing, but the map pin thingy is in the wrong place.... haven't read the rest of the thread, is this a problem that anyone else has had?

MrsSpoon · 09/03/2007 19:54

OK, have added a listing but coming out in a cold sweat at the thought of winning the Fairy School comp, I've not won a MN competition since 2002/03 and I am horrified to think that it might be my 'time' again when the prize is Fairy School!

Kif · 09/03/2007 19:52

te-e-e-e-chie! Yoo hoo!

I see you good folk did the world music vibe of giraffe. It's obviously a chain - as is Browns. Can we reflect that?

My idea: Have a button that says somethings like "click here if this description applies to more than one location" or "click here if its a chain". That creates a copy of the listing with blank postcode address area, and an editable comments area with the original comments still there. So then I can tell you all about my local Browns and my local Giraffe. You could even - wowzer - have a 'see others in the chain' button on the listing.

I'm good at making up work for other people, aren't I?

SoupDragon · 09/03/2007 19:40

Oh god, PLEASE tell me I've not entered a competition to go to Fairy School?

Kif · 09/03/2007 19:39

d'oh! me too.

funnypeculiar · 09/03/2007 19:36

lurverly - have added ... but am crossing my fingers not to win...

Possibly my stupidity, but could there be more address info on the little list (to rhs) of 'places recently added locally' (or something like that) - as you only get road names (none of which I reckonised) it was a faff to find out how local they were ... could these include town too? (Am Surrey/edge of London so 'local' places potentially actually quite a drive away)

Monkeytrousers · 09/03/2007 19:26

Cool!

But I added one with a red flag by accident. Can I change that?

SueW · 09/03/2007 19:22

Also would prefer not to be entered in that partic comp (DD would go nuts!)

filthymindedvixen · 09/03/2007 19:18

can i add something and not be entered to win a naffing palce at fairy school .
I have boys.
And I am ALLERGIC to pink.
And I'm too chuffing old for bollocksy fairy wings, that's for sure!

MNHQ
Tech · 09/03/2007 19:17

Cleaninglady, that sounds like a potential plan. We are sort of figuring things out as we go along, so we could give that a try.

Cheers,
Tech

Lilliput · 09/03/2007 19:17

Oh right, sorry.
I will add as many as I can think of.

Iota · 09/03/2007 19:15

I second Kif's comment of 18.51

saltire · 09/03/2007 19:12

I added one of my fave restaurants in St Andrews, and miraculously it has appeared on the mumsnet local. i am astounded as I usually manage to get these things wrong

Kif · 09/03/2007 19:11

lilli - it's not on the site cos they've not got many listings yet

Lilliput · 09/03/2007 19:11

I still don't see where you link to Mumsnet local anywhere on the sight other than on this thread. Where is the button?

Twiglett · 09/03/2007 18:53

oh and when you look at listings on the map and hold your cursor over them it is turning apostrophes into a code (hash39;) so you might want to tweak that too

Kif · 09/03/2007 18:51

tech - I'm limbering up to work hard on you behalf - but can you make all the fields bigger pls? if i copy and paste things like admissions prices or addresses that may go over several lines, copy and paste only picks up first line iyswim.

Twiglett · 09/03/2007 18:51

can you put a shops category in please tech

I want to add our fabulous sweete shoppe .. a la charlie and the chocolate factory