Adding a Place of Interest

Anyone can add a place of interest.

Please follow the guide below.

Note that a member of admin will get an alert when these are added and so may tidy it up if information is missing 

There are two ways to add a place of interest

The first, potentially easier way is detailed below

METHOD ONE

From the map

Open the map and zoom in to the location of the place of interest. You can use the A button on the left hand side (aerial view) or the G button on the left hand side (google view) to get in very close. It is very important that you click in the right place.

So for example, adding Stratford YHA,

G Button

If Google map

shown

 Open Street Map View                                                                                                        

G Button

If Open Street

Shown

 Google View

A Button

Click this again

to get the

map views

 Aerial View

Press the Shift key while clicking with the left mouse button at the maps location. This will reveal the Coordinates as the above examples show

When you do this a simple form pops up with the maps GPS reference already filled in. This will appear as a separate box, usually above and to the left

There are boxes to fill in.

The absolute minimum is Title and Category, but please add more

Title


Name of the place . After this the nearest settlement in brackets as this helps when searching for places

Example: Holy Cow (Radstock)

Category

Use the dropdown menu to show all the categories

Do the same for the Secondary Category.  Add this if the place of interest has two things of note, for example a museum with a cafe, or a historic house with a large garden. Use you judgement as to which is the main category. 

Latitude and Longitude

This is automatically entered

Picture0

This is the primary picture that will be displayed. Try to add a picture as it would appear on arrival (from the outside as seen from the ride), so that it can be recognised

Web1 / Web2

Web1 Add a website. Only add a social media one if this is the only one available. Make sure the entire website address is included, such as https://..... 

This is really important as we use a URL checker to validate the web address which indicates if the place of interest is still trading

Web2 If there is a second website, use this. Examples are those with websites for sub categories, or social media. Nearly all cafes have a facebook presence

Telephone

Include the STD code and a gap between this and the number

Description

On the first line add the address including the postcode

After this add a description. 

Personal

This tick box is for admin use, please leave unticked

Finally click Save and there you have it

Adding more detail

That's it but you can (and it's good if you can) add more detail

To do this, go to the left hand menu of Rides and click on List Places. This brings up all the places of interest that have been entered in date order. 

If you have added a picture there will be one to the left. To the right are the basics, a name in the form of a blue hyperlink, the i.d. which is the number of places of interest added, category, map reference, hyperlink to map and who added it. Click on the name (hyperlink) and this reveals more detail. At the bottom is a green button labelled Edit, click this. You now have a few more things that can be added

To start to Edit click the Blue E button next to the name

Note that only you or an admin can edit this place of interest

The title below in RED are places which are blank, where it would be lovely if more detail can be added.

The rest can be used to easily edit the information already entered

Enabled This should be ticked by default, it shows that this place of interest will appear

Special Should be unticked

Title

Category / Secondary Category

Latitude / Longitude

Web1 / Web2

Telephone

Description box 

You can add more detail here.

You can copy and paste from websites, but be careful with the material that you do. You will get styling issues in some cases, so again be selective. Don't alter the styling of anything pasted into this box, the rides system will sort this out.

Pictures

Picture0

This is the default picture that will be used 

Picture1,Picture2,Picture3

Picture1, Pictture2 and Picture3, allow you to add more pictures, maybe of a tandem at the place. 

By default in setting this up if you have pictures add 

Picture0 - outside the place,

Picture1 - a logo,

Picture2 - inside,

Picture3 - anything else. 

In the case of a secondary category this is a good place to add more pictures

Document (PDF file) More Information

Some places have more information such as a map or in the case of Historic attractions in Scotland or English Heritage a PDF on the website that gives more information. This can be uploaded using this button. It will apear as a hyperlink with the name of the file that you uploaded, so check that makes sense before uploading, for example 'map of the Country Park'

You can use the document title box to rename the file uploaded

Date / Date Added / User ID

Personal

Modified Date / Modified UserID

Admins are checking the entry, hopefully due to user feedback or due to the URL checker. This just gives a record of when this was done

Finally click save at the bottom and check it all looks OK.

METHOD 2

This leads to the second way to add places of interest

Place Add

This can be accessed from the left hand menu and gives the expanded table above. You can then add all the information

Cheats for this

Use google

Latitude / Longitude

Find the place of google, zoom in, the right click. This will give these co-ordinates. Copy and paste these into the two boxes (don't forget to split them)

Web1

If you find the place on google, this may give the website. Click on this and check it. Copy and paste the URL, but remember that google will add loads more after the URL, don't transfer that information

Web2

Use the search function (top left) in facebook

Address 

Google will have these. Click and these will go to a clipboard then paste. Addresses may be shortened, getting a better one from the website is a good idea

Telephone Number

Google will have these. Click and these will go to a clipboard then paste. Please split the STD code from the number.

Facebook pages often have this as well

Pictures

Screen print the picture. 

Please try not to use google as potential copyright issues, use

Google - on the top of the picture you can select 'by owner' filter these

Facebook - use these, again be careful, don't include recognisable people