Destinations: Where do you want to go?

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In my time alone, I often think about the places I want to go. I wanted to create an interesting/beautiful way to show that activity. As a result, I started talking with some of my friends about the idea. Through conversations with them, I have moved beyond the original goal of presenting my desires to presenting those of as many people as we can gather. I recently finished building the site to present those desires, and have begun filling it with content. It is an extension of my time spent alone project.

Rebecca Fenton is interviewing people she meets in Bamako, Mali, Africa. In her conversations, she is posing the central questions of the project to many people. Those questions are: “Where do you want to go?” and “Why do you want to go there?” Their responses to those questions are being added to the site.

In addition to viewing the responses of others, you are invited to contribute the places where you want to go, and the reasons you want to go there.


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I used some awesome, free tools and APIs to build the project. Obviously, I am using the Google Maps API to pull in satellite imagery. The backend was built using CodeIgniter, PHP and MySQL. The front-end uses jQuery to accomplish most of the interactions.

I feel like I should give some sort of credit to the people I talked to while building this project, so here is that. Thanks to Rebecca for listening to me and responding to my initial idea and participating in the field. Thanks to Bill and Nicole for seeming genuinely interested in the project and providing early feedback. Thanks also to Aimee Kreider for helping me understand something about mySQL.

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