com.meridiandispatch/travel-guides

Tools

• best_of

  Meridian Dispatch's ranked lists of the best places to visit, for the world or one country, overall or by category (landmarks, museums, towns, beaches, parks, wilderness, hiking trails, scenic drives, viewpoints, wildlife and more). Use for 'top things to do in X' and 'best beaches in X'.

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• confirm_fact

  Tell the Meridian Dispatch desk that a fact on one of its pages still holds, with the current, independent source that shows it (the place's official website, an operator or government page). Use it when the traveller confirms a fact on a page (they were just there, or asked you to check it and the source agrees). If the fact is wrong instead, use suggest_edit. Quote checked_text exactly as the page (or this server's answer) gives it and pass the source; a quote not on the page, or a source on meridiandispatch.com, is refused. A confirmation is recorded as a signal for the desk to review and counted per page; it does not mark the page verified, change its date or reorder any list, and the page itself does not change. The same confirmation sent twice is recorded once. Returns whether it was recorded.

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• create_itinerary_link

  Generate an itinerary import link: turn a day-by-day travel itinerary into a shareable "Add Itinerary to Meridian Dispatch" link. Opening the link on an iPhone with the Meridian Dispatch app shows the trip and adds it to the Plan tab as a new plan, after the traveller picks the first day; anywhere else it opens a web preview of the days. Days are numbered (day 1, 2, 3) or dated, and every day needs a hotel stay. A place given with its meridiandispatch.com page URL arrives with that page's field record. Links are public and permanent: booking references, emails and phone numbers are removed.

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• get_best_time

  Get the best time to visit from the Meridian Dispatch guides, in one of two modes. Give destination (a country, town, trail or ski resort) for its best months, good and avoid months, closures and crowds where known, the guide's own best-time line, and the events held there. Or give month for "where to go in March": up to 40 countries, towns, trails, ski resorts and festivals the guides recommend that month, each with its reason, events first. If both are given, destination wins. For festival dates alone use list_events; for a full planning guide use get_destination. Read-only. An unknown destination, an invalid month or neither parameter returns an error message.

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• get_destination

  The Meridian Dispatch guide to a country or a town: why go, how long to stay, when to go, getting there and around, practical FAQ answers, a structured fact sheet where one exists (nights, months, travel times, areas to stay, ranked top things, day trips, watch-outs), the places worth your time (with their own guide links), the hotels it recommends, and the related dispatches.

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• get_dispatch

  A Meridian Dispatch long-form dispatch (a reported piece on one place: headline, standfirst, opening excerpt, links to the town and country guides) or itinerary (a country route over N days: the bases in order, nights in each, where to stay and every day's activities by part of the day, each linked to its guide). Pass a URL, slug or place name.

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• get_place

  The Meridian Dispatch field record for one place: the best time to go, how long it takes, effort, season, access, how to get there and what goes wrong. Works for sights, trails, scenic drives, events and ski resorts. Takes a meridiandispatch.com page URL, or a name with its town or country.

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• list_best_places

  List Meridian Dispatch's ranked World's Best places: the 20 best in the world or the 10 best in one country, overall or within one category. Use it for "top things to do in X" or "best beaches in X". For one town's highlights use get_destination; for places near a point use list_nearby; for any other search use search_guides. Returns the list's title, the places in rank order (rank, name, where, a one-line summary, the place's own guide URL where one exists, and a coordinate), the other categories available for that scope, and a citation. Read-only. A country or category with no list returns an error that names the ones that exist.

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• list_events

  Festivals and events worth planning a trip around, from the Meridian Dispatch events guide: dates of the current edition, the best day to go, when to book, where to stay and practical tips. Filter by month and/or country.

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• list_nearby

  List the places Meridian Dispatch covers near a place or a coordinate, nearest first, for day trips from a base or what else to see near a sight. From a town with a researched guide, it leads with day_trips: the guide's own picks, with travel mode and how long. Without type it answers a day-trip question: up to 15 towns, each once at its nearest point, with its distance, summary, guide link, best few places and dispatches; a town's own sights are left out (get_destination has them). With type it returns a flat list of up to 20 places of that kind with distances. Distances are straight-line kilometres, not by road. Give place, or lat and lng together. For the sights inside one town use get_destination; to search by theme use search_guides. Read-only. An unknown place or nothing within the radius returns an error message.

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• nearby

  Places covered by Meridian Dispatch near a place or a coordinate, nearest first, with straight-line distance: day trips from a base, what else to see near a sight.

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• search

  Search Meridian Dispatch travel guides: long-form dispatches, country guides, town guides, venues (sights, museums, beaches, parks), trails, events and ski resorts. Returns ranked pages with a summary and a citable URL.

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• search_guides

  Search every Meridian Dispatch travel guide by keyword: long-form dispatches, multi-day itineraries, country and town guides, venues (sights, museums, beaches, parks), trails and scenic drives, events and ski resorts. Use it first when you do not know the exact page. Once you know the place, read it in full with get_destination (a country or town), get_place (one sight, trail, event or ski resort) or get_dispatch (a dispatch or itinerary); for ranked top-ten lists use list_best_places, for a month use get_best_time. Returns up to `limit` pages ranked by relevance, each with its type, title, country, town, a one-line summary, a citable URL and when it was last updated. Ranking is keyword-based with travel synonyms; a country or month named in the query is honoured. Read-only. When nothing matches it returns an error message; retry with a broader query or a place name.

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• suggest_edit

  Send the Meridian Dispatch desk a correction to one of its pages. Use it when the traveller tells you something on a meridiandispatch.com page is wrong or out of date (a place has closed, moved, been renamed, changed its hours or now needs booking). Pass a source_url when the traveller gives one or one supports what they said. Do not use it for opinions, reviews or style. To read a page first, use get_place, get_destination or get_dispatch. Quote current_text exactly as it appears on the page (or in this server's answer about it); a quote that is not found is refused. Nothing changes immediately: the desk verifies every suggestion against its own sources before editing. Returns whether the suggestion was received and its id; the same suggestion sent twice is recorded once. A page that is not on meridiandispatch.com, a quote not on the page, or too many suggestions in an hour (per conversation, per address or per page) returns an error saying which.

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• suggest_place

  Suggest a town, sight, walk, museum, event, ski resort, food area or hotel that Meridian Dispatch has no page for, so the desk can research and add it to this free, shared travel reference. Use it when the traveller asks about, or tells you about, somewhere the guides do not cover (search_guides or get_destination found nothing) and it is real and open. Single restaurants, bars and shops are not listed; a food street, market or bar district is. source_url is required: the place's official website or another current page showing it exists. A place already covered returns its page instead of a suggestion. Nothing is published straight away: the desk researches every suggestion first. The same place suggested twice is recorded once. Returns whether it was received.

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• when_to_go

  Best time to visit, from the Meridian Dispatch guides. Give a destination for its best months in the guide's own words plus events there, or a month for the countries, towns, trails, ski resorts and festivals the guides recommend then ('where to go in March').

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