| Change | Dependencies | Importance | Description of upcoming changes to
Campbell River's Online Map and Guide |
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| Built in Search Feature | Medium | CRmap.ca, Campbell River's online Guide and Map lists all organisations’ names and phone numbers, with any non-business entities able to add additional info for free. We have listed Campbell River's 2,200+ businesses, support organisations, sports clubs, church social groups and any other organisation. Even without considering organisations that have multiple purposes this makes for a very full menu. We want to make a search utility that makes it easier to look for a specific thing. Such as "Restaurants", "Plumbers", "Elk Falls" or "Parade". |
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| Photo Albums | Low | We would like a section where professional and amateur photographers can show the beauty that Campbell River has to offer. Most people who live in Campbell River have not seen Ripple Rock trail, Quinsam Potholes, Elk Falls, Haig-Brown House or many of our other features. |
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| Automated Billing | Medium | This is not of much interest to the general user of the site, but it would certainly make our job much easier. It would also make the Campbell River businesses that list on the site have a much more consistent and comprehensive way to deal with their advertising. |
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| e-Commerce | Automated Billing | Low | This should make it easier and less expensive for Campbell River businesses to advertise with us. |
| Shared Calendar Information | Other Local Media | High |
This should make it easier and less expensive for Campbell River businesses to advertise with us.
This is a really good idea, if it works. The problem right now is that in Campbell River there are
5 radio stations, 2 newspapers, a TV station, Coffee News, Campbell River Visitor Centre, Campbell
River Chamber of Commerce as well as CRCN and quite a few other web sites that advertise what's
going on in the community. This is quite costly for businesses as you would guess, but it is very
costly for the local non-profit organisations. To get everything lined up it takes from 30 minutes
to a few hours for each media that an organisation advertises with. Even with lots of volunteer
help this means that a lot of beneficial advertising gets missed. I am hoping that we can get the
media of Campbell River together so advertisers can put information in one place and just select
where their event is to be advertised. This would cut down on time and if it helps the media make
more sales, may even reduce the costs of advertising. We would like to thank the Tidemark Theaterand theMuseum at Campbell Riverfor being the first to try helping bring the city of Campbell River together in this way. |
| Change Mapping to GPS Coordinates | Money | Medium | More boring stuff. The idea behind this is that everything is database driven. This will mean that only the part of Campbell River that the Map is currently showing will be drawn. As it is, the program looks at every single road to determine if it is showing or not. This will make the map smoother to move around and rotate. This will also allow for more detail and fun animations in the future. |
If you have any other suggestions for CRmap.ca,
Campbell River'sOnline Guide and Map, please send us an email. |
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