VBSfinder.com Is Up and Running
I’ve been working on a Rails app on-and-off for a couple of months, and it’s ready for human consumption. VBSfinder is a site where families can find vacation bible schools near them. Only problem is I need people to enter VBSs that they know about. So if you know of one, please take a minute to enter the event information so that other can search.
There are quite a few features that are not ready yet, like the mapping interface. But I wanted to get the site up and functional so that people can start using it. I’ll get the frosting on the cake later.
Comments or complaints are always welcome.
2 Comments to “VBSfinder.com Is Up and Running”
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captproton says:
Nice clean looking site. What are you using for the mapping, yahoo or google? Andre over at http://earthcode.com/ created GeoKit for this kind of thing. He also started http://hotspotr.com/wifi a while back that caters to a different crowd than yours, but I suspect that much of the back end is the same.
Oh, by the way, the blog’s layout looks great!
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@captproton: I’m using GeoKit and google for the geocoding and will be using google for the maps. The design will (hopefully) be similar to the google maps used by Geocaching.com to display a map area that has pins for each location that updates as the user scrolls/zooms. Haven’t done anything like that before with maps, so I’ll just start out simple and add as I go.
I use GeoKit is just about every project I do now. Just geocoding address/zip_codes and being able to do a radius search is invaluable.
Thanks for the kind words.
