Originally Posted by
Steve in Olympia
Wow. I have to ask: How long did it take for you to create this tool?
It is all relative, I suppose. I've had a
Avios connecting flights calculator for a few years now and putting that together took a few days. This is mostly the same data which, admittedly, I do not maintain often enough, so from that perspective it was not too bad. I also recently made a similar map for <700 mile routes on United because there is a break on the price for booking those. I did that on Monday and someone asked on Tuesday if I could do similar for Avios. Since I already had much of the data it was a matter of putting the UI on top of it and I already had most of the code for that from other projects. So maybe an incremental 6-8 hours to get it done and look pretty.
Originally Posted by
SanDiego1K
Is there a way to print the destinations in the scroll down box?
I hadn't ever considered that someone might want to do something like that.
I'll see if I can come up with a means to make that happen.
Originally Posted by
SpammersAreScum
Very nice -- thanks! Couple questions:
- Do you plan to expand this beyond Band 4?
- DCA-TPA shows correctly as Band 2, but TPA-DCA shows as Band 1.
I have the data to expand it so that is possible. I was concerned about the map becoming too cluttered and running out of colors to use for the icons. If folks think it would be better with the extra data I can add it in.
And thanks for noting DCA; I "fixed" it yesterday but apparently only halfway. Did the rest just now so it should be all good.
Originally Posted by
flyaxa
Very cool, indeed. Thanks, Seth.
I'm probably missing it, but is there a button to reset the map?
Originally Posted by
vishalgupta22
I don't see a reset button, but you can edit the link in the browser address bar.
Yup. UI isn't my strong suit; I need to add a reset button or something.