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Your suggestion sounds exactly like <Shameless_plug> Visamapper (www.visamapper.com) </Shameless_plug>

But DoIneedAVisaFor is a more direct way to answer the question if you already know your Destination.

Usually it's pretty easy to get a Visa on arrival at most African countries, yet when I tried to add that, I was asked to log in through either Google or Facebook (I like neither). When I saw that it required my permission to use some data on my Google account even when I'm not using the site, I declined and then got a typical Rails error page.

The permission to use some data is the minimum permission requested (Email address). The intent here is to use OAuth to allow easy logins, not harvest data. BTW, The entire site is open-source at http://www.github.com/udit99/visamapper, so not only can you a) Verify that there is no foul play, but b) send pull requests with alternative login methods.

To verify that there's no foul play, there would also need to be a way to check that the code on github is what is actually running on the site...

I'm not aware of how to implement such a check. Any ideas?

It looks great. Sadly I couldn't find Singapore in this map (well, it has 182 countries listed), but yeah that may happen when we try to cluster all the information in one single page.

I like your site, but why not show the color key below the map?

Thats how I originally had it, then the legend increased in size and refused to fit cleanly under the map and I pulled it out. Would you consider it a huge deal or a minor distraction?

I just tried to visit but got a "can't find the server" error.

not sure why. Works right now. Try again?

I had to drop the www http://visamapper.com/

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