Oh yeah, I should mention I posted this on HN a little more than a week ago. Combined with Reddit, you guys helped us get close to 500 entries in a couple days.
With the data and suggestions, we were able to map it out on googlemaps. We added metric units (grams), manual location selection, and region pages. Thanks HN!
Could you add an option to choose which quantity you want to see prices in? Seeing x$/gram next to y$/ounce doesn't really help much. Doing the conversion to a user-selectable base unit for all entries on one screen shouldn't be hard (I know that it would be distorted because of quantity discounts, maybe you can add an option to only show entries within a certain quantity bracket).
Plus, the heatmap request above would be nice.
Thirdly, the page says that there were entries in my area (in Europe) but the map doesn't show any.
Also, if you're soliciting feature suggestions ;) , as you get more data over time it would be nice to be able to view price evolution, and on a micro scale maybe even relate it to market events like a big plantation bust. It would be really cool if you could deduce hard numbers on price elasticity, using the normalized amount of entries over a time period as a proxy for supply.
Also you don't seem to track 'legal' vs 'illegal' sales? They're two very different markets I think, but maybe they do overlap. Does anyone know of any research on this? It seems like a very novel field, considering that the emergence of legal medical marijuana use in the US is a recent development.
Maybe (I'll stop suggesting after this ;) ) you can also track a difference between 'place bought' and 'place consumed' or 'place of residence'. It would be interesting to graph cross-border drug tourism patterns in Western Europe.
With the data and suggestions, we were able to map it out on googlemaps. We added metric units (grams), manual location selection, and region pages. Thanks HN!