Hi, I am using my own data of received and send cards within PowerBI to make a map of the world whereby I can see to which countries I have received or send cards. Would this be a nice addition to the “Mapl”? So not only you can see the city where your card has come from or is going, but also the country.
When I now check my “Map” some countries are really crowded and it would be great if you could make an extra filter… for now I will be using my own map. ::
This way, you can easily see which countries you have gotten/received cards. This example only shows my received cards… but in my file I use three colors (Received, Send & Receieved/Send).
I created this page to apply recently acquired coding skills. Initially I got the data directly from Postcrossing. Now the emails I get from Postcrossing are parsed automatically for almost real-time updates (and also for not creating unnecessary traffic on the website)
I was also thinking of creating an app to generate this automatically when you provide any other username, but that means parsing Postcrossing on and on again and I don’t want to have my account closed
I’m working with My TravelMap. So far I haven’t distinguished between sent and received cards. But as we are still in lockdown I will have time to do so.
Yes the underlying data is automatically updated from emails: the ‘Hurray’ email for sent ones, ‘Postcrossing Postcard ID’ for travelling ones… as for received ones, I simply request an email copy of the thank you message I write for the sender, but that of course depends on when I sit down at my laptop to register them
It would also be great to avail that data in CSV format, so that users can download, analyse, and plot them however they wish. Much useful information can be drawn from that.