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I have been working on and off on https://www.whichtemple.in https://www.whichtemple.in - it is a collection of ~ 2700 temples across India, with images source
by lappet 2mo ago
I have been working on and off on https://www.whichtemple.in https://www.whichtemple.in
- it is a collection of ~ 2700 temples across India, with images sourced from wikipedia
- it shows you a random temple each time you visit
- it has a map view of temples across India
So this is just the tip of the iceberg. I am trying to build a catalogue of all temples, starting with India, and expanding on to the rest of the world. The focus is on temples originating from Indic religions like Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.
I have personally discovered many cool temples that I have never heard of, but I am struggling on how to gamify this. Feedback welcome!
- ViscountPenguin 2mo agoA fun game would be to quickly guess the religion of a temple? Could familiarize people with the common iconography of the various dharmic religions.
- lappet 2mo agoYeah tbh I don't know if it is easy to do that. Any suggestions?
- unsungNovelty 2mo agoWould love to filter this by states so that I can go to the interesting temples in my state first before trying out other places. Would make it more functional.
- lappet 2mo agoYes, definitely on my list. For now you can try the map view and zoom into your state. Thanks for the feedback!
- unsungNovelty 2mo agoPerfect. Will keep this website bookmarked. Thanks.
- ingvay7 2mo agoNice one. Maps feature still needs too many clicks. Will be great to type in a place and get all the nearby ones. A snippet of whats interesting about this temple would also be interesting with the pic along with the existing wikipedia option.
- lappet 2mo agoThank you, that is a good suggestion
- unsungNovelty 2mo agoCheckout OpenStreetMap. You can add a map snippet using leaflet. It's trivial. Just that it won't be Google maps which people might be looking for.
- lappet 2mo agoyes I already have that at https://www.whichtemple.in/map https://www.whichtemple.in/map
- cookiengineer 2mo agoYou should make a pokedex out of this! Imagine scanning the temple with your smartphone (taking a picture with gps data) to see details about the temples. Would be so cool. Then make them into categories like Water Temple, and like a stat quartett with details. Would be an awesome travel companion.
- lappet 2mo agooh like Pokemon go but for temples? that is a pretty cool idea!