[OGDev] What's your guide for?

[Kake L Pugh]

While we were chatting on #openguides IRC, perigrin asked me and Bob
why we find RGL useful.  We came up with a lot of stuff, which I have
summarised below.  I thought this might be a good question for other
guide admins/users to ask themselves.  What do you like about your
guide(s)?  Why do you use them?  I would be interested to hear your
answers.

Bob uses RGL to keep track of known decent pubs.  He also likes
writing reviews as a means of procrastination :)

I use it:
- to keep track of known decent pubs and restaurants
- to help me find pubs near specific restaurants (for meeting in before dinner)
- to note down the quirks of various Tube/rail stations; see e.g.
    http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Wimbledon_Station
    http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Green_Park_Station
- as a quick reference for which central stations are served by specific
    outlying stations, to help me plan my journey when I'm visiting an
    unfamiliar area
- to note down which dishes are the best ones in local takeaways
- to find cafes and pubs that I can stop off at when I'm on a long walk
- as somewhere central to keep links to reviews, forum posts, etc about a
    given place, so if I'm meeting someone somewhere I can just give them a
    single RGL link instead of three map links, two pub review site links, etc

In the past, I've used it to keep a list of restaurants I'd not
visited but wanted to - but the list got too big so I stopped doing
that because I didn't want RGL to have too many stub pages with no
original content.  This is basically because London's so big - I have
no such qualms about the Cambridge guide, which I also have a hand in
running.

I also just had an email this morning from a friend who says she's
using RGL to help her explore her neighbourhood.  She plans to visit a
new place every week and write it up for RGL.

Kake