Snooth Talk: Suggestions Various

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: Suggestions Various; Posted by kevchan, May 26, 2007.; 1) I think you need a faq/glossary for beginners to educate ppl re regions, grapes, vintages, like have maps etc... this will make the whole experience of discovering wines more interactive.

2) For recomendations, def need price slider, fillter for country/grape or region

3) Spelling mistakes, I think you need a comprehensive synonym for spellings of words like pauillac (which I had trouble spelling!)

4) Wines - details of competitions or awards won?

1666 3027: Reply by Philip, May 29, 2007.; 1) this is in the pipeline - you'll be able to click on a term in a wine detail page and a bubble with a snippet of info will pop up

2) I'm going to address this in a different post, but we'll launch a slider for the main search page today

3) very true - we have tens of thousand of words - close to 100k with winery synonyms, but we're adding more all the time. Your mis-splelt searches help us identify new ones

4) in the pipeline and will be launched in a few weeks

67 693: Reply by gr, May 30, 2007.; on 1: I think the map suggestion is specifically a Really Good Idea, and I think you can steal many regions from google already.

45 47: Reply by kevchan, May 31, 2007.; Specifically on the Map again, the one thing that I've always been curious of (and would be good for some after dinner chat) is how the different soil/acidity/rainfall etc affect the varietals that can be grown and the texture and quality of the grape that is grown... also why certain wines are perceived to go well with certain foods. An interactive zoom in drill down map would be fantastic, particularly if some of the bigger vineyards were actually marked etc...

I think information like this can add depth to Snooth and make the wine experience more complete.

For example. I invite some ppl round for dinner and give them a little speil on how I thought something from this area of the Rhone Valley would go nicely with so and so pork chop because of this and that quality blah blah.. next time I can tell them about this Sauv Blanc from marlborough region in NZ and actually know whether its the north or south island, and why its different from the stuff in hawkes bay

http://www.nzwine.com/regions/

Google maps style zooming scrolling on a globe would be cool

67 693: Reply by gr, May 31, 2007.; Screw "Google maps STYLE": just steal gmaps for this by way of not including the maps locally, but linking out to a lat/long location url on their site. This is easy to do Right Now, and will make people happy enough to be have in the snooty way desired.

And then when you actually want to integrate it, maybe license gmaps, but I have no idea how expensive that is. (I'm pretty sure you're not breaking any rules by linking to them, but I don't you can embed in for-profit without paying something for the privilege.)

1666 3027: Reply by Philip, May 31, 2007.; Google maps has a free api - its easy to use to use it to show you the address of something (eg. a winery or a wine store), but not so good to show people vineyard plots or soil types etc. You can mash that information on top of it, but thats getting harder.

I do agree that we need to add rich content to the site soon - we have a few negotiations going that will give us some of this fairly soon. the super complex stuff may have to wait a while, but good suggestions nonetheless.