[mehmet_mhy]

This looks amazing! I can definitely see myself using this if I were traveling since I am bad at planning trips. But I have some questions: Is the database used by Tripnotes regularly updated? And if so, what source(s) does it use to get updates on when, let's say, a restaurant shuts down, relocates, changes something on their menu, etc?

[messel]

Yeah it's updated regularly with third party data + fresh crawlers. We do miss closures/relocations sometimes. We also sometimes mix up the content for place descriptions on multipage pages (saw that recently with a friends test recommendation for Peking duck, at a place that didn't carry it).

[enobrev]

Hello, thanks for the kind words!

Most of our POI data comes from multiple sources, including data agreements and our own scrapers.

We have a few sources we like to "watch" who tend to be fairly accurate for things like openings and closings and have some heuristics to figure out if a place is actually closed. We also allow our users to flag places for review.

It's definitely imperfect! I've had to manually research and close or "re-open" a few places over the past couple days as more people have had a chance to see our data in action.

We're not tracking menus yet, but it's high on our list for things to tackle.

Relocations will generally end up being a "new place" in our system. I'm hoping to make it so the "old location" redirects to the "new location" at some point. We're not there quite yet.