A restaurant got nothing: no wiki article, and a coordinate search around it
returns whatever was photographed nearby rather than the place itself. Three
changes, all on free sources:
OpenStreetMap facts. A tagged restaurant carries its cuisine, its opening hours,
a link to its menu, outdoor seating, step-free access and diet tags. Those
arrive with the details lookup the dialog already makes, so showing them as
chips costs nothing and is the single biggest gain for exactly the places that
were empty before. Only positive facts are listed - "no outdoor seating" is
noise.
Commons categories. Where a place has a wikimedia_commons tag, its category is
pictures OF it; geosearch falls back in when the category is empty.
Wikivoyage before Wikipedia. Same API, same licence, but it describes a place
for someone about to visit rather than opening with area in square kilometres.
Two sentences instead of three, because this sits beside a form.
The column also follows the section-heading idiom Vacay and the dashboard share
(uppercase overline, wide tracking), its header matches the Saved places panel
beside it, and a lead picture with a row underneath replaces the two-column
grid that left a hole on every odd count. Credits wrap over two lines instead
of truncating - a cut-off name credits nobody.
Saved places stops after ten with a Show more button; search and filters still
run over everything, not just the visible page.
Form spacing is one rhythm (12px between groups, 8px inside, 4px label to
field) and Notes matches Description in height. The OSM notice fits on one line
and no longer claims there are no photos, which stopped being true when the
column started fetching them from Wikimedia. The clipboard hint is gone; paste
still works.
Fans the new provider primitives out into one answer for a place that is being
looked at but not saved yet: a strip of pictures and a description, each with
its source.
Free sources are the normal case - most instances have no Google key at all, so
Commons and the OSM tags have to carry this on their own and Google is what an
admin adds on top. Pictures are copied into the existing photo cache under
"<placeId>~pN" keys rather than hotlinked: Google's photo URLs expire (migration
107 had to repair exactly that once), and a provider URL in the strip would send
every viewer's address to Google or Wikimedia. Whatever nobody picks is
unreferenced and the nightly sweep clears it out.
The result is cached for a week in place_details_cache under a third expanded
value, so no migration. Rate limited per user, and a provider being down answers
empty rather than failing the dialog.
Maurice