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    This Space For Hire gillhalfpint's Avatar
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    CAMRA launch of a pub site. Fear not. It is soooo sloooowwww. Haven't managed to find anything I have searched for and it will have a long way to go to be serious opposition to either established site.
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    I think they may have taken the site down as IE cannot connect to it at the moment.
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    I got into it OK, but it's a waste of space. There are only 21,000 pubs listed and there is no process for adding missing ones other than to send an email to your local Camra branch offering to help them update the system. One of the most valuable tools in the Pubs Galore system is the ability to submit a new pub. This Camra system hasn't been properly thought through.
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    I looked up The Baum on it.

    It's miles out on the map, no-one would ever find it following this.

    There's no way to move it either.

    It says it's near the rail station, it isn't, ask Trainman.

    What a waste of money.
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    I was trying to find the Wellington in Birmingham, and eventually got the nearest pub to New Street station .. .. .. in Smethwick!!
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    There's some interesting stuff on a tab labelled Branches. This shows the extent to which branches have complied with the requirement to list their pubs on the database. This explains, for example, why none of the pubs in Sheffield exist yet.

    Interestingly, there is some wording that seems to have leaked from a "for your eyes only" version:

    Before we can launch WhatPub to the general public we need to ensure that:

    • We have an acceptable geographical coverage of the UK.
    • The scope of pub data in each branch area is acceptable.
    • WhatPub overall compares favourably against the incumbent competition, and particularly, Beer in the

    Evening.


    This suggests that the launch is actually a little premature. Also, the new site not only compares unfavourably with Bite, it is equally clearly nowhere near as good as PuG.
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    This link should take you to the login page, enter your membership number without leading zeros then your postcode without spaces as the password (unless you've been and changed it like a good member), click on the login button as return/enter button doesn't seem to work.

    Bear in mind only pubs in those branches areas that have uploaded information to the WhatPub site will be there, as Gill says check the "which branches have achieved amber or green status" or the "which branches have already contributed?" links to see if it's worth going further in an area.


    You may also need to put in either a town or pubname + town in the search box for reasonable results; you can also stick in a county name.

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    Sounds like hard work to me, they've not done their homework.
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