LocatePage

The Locate Page helps a Player to nominate a Venue by either selecting an existing qwikgame Venue or creating a new qwikgame venue.

Design Intent

Existing Venues

A list of up to 5 existing qwikgame venues are offered to the Player. These 5 venues are selected based on simple word matches with the contents of the New Venue Form. This list is updated dynamically (todo) as the Player adds more words to the New Venue Form.

Each existing Venue button contains the VID and the number of Players listing the Venue as a Favorite. The intent firstly is to present the Player with the full unique VID (rather than the SVID). Secondly, the Player has the opportunity to select the most patronised Venue. This is an important "winner takes all" approach for a single VID to capture the bulk of the Favorites, and allow duplicates of the same physical venue to fade into obscurity (and eventually be merged or deleted).

New Venue Form

This form allows a Player to create a new Venue with the 4 mandatory components of the Venue VID (Name | Locality | Region | CountryCode). As the Player adds information to this form the Existing Venues and Google suggestions are updated dynamically (JSON server call).

Google Venues

As a Player adds information to the New Venue Form, Google is consulted to suggest a list of possible places. The Google suggestions are each presented as a Button in VID format (Name | Locality | Region | CountryCode). When the Player selects on of these buttons a new qwikgame Venue is created which contains the unique Google PlaceID.