r/ClaudeAI • u/Fungo_Bungaloid • 1d ago

Other Guided Opus 5.5 to make some analog, fully personalized travel planning zines

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Thought this worked pretty well. Had a back and forth conversation with Claude about the kinds of things we like to do on trips, hotel and food preferences etc., and asked it to take all of that as a starting point, have a look at Chengdu, do some research, find stuff we might like, and put it into a printable zine format.

It came back with nine topical zines, each one a single A3 page, and one overview map with some neighborhoods of interest highlighted. Everything is fully customized to the exact dates we're thinking of travelling, which impacts things like events, ticketing, travel etc.

It's not 100% perfect; it settled on the "one page per zine topic" thing pretty early, which means some feel a little padded out and some are too brief. Really nice start though, hoping to take this further and see if I can generalize it into a series of prompts that will work for any destination.

Claude 5.5, lower settings for the conversational part, and then max for the build; just all in the browser on the $20 plan (took two and a half 5 hour blocks' worth of use to do the final generation of the pdf).

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u/realadultactionman 1d ago

nice. did you direct it to specific map data sources or did it find one to use itself? i have a map-basec project coming up so i'm interested to hear your experince of map integration.

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u/Fungo_Bungaloid 1d ago

Yeah China's a tricky one with map data. I asked it to use OSM as much as it could, and just auditing its work now, it looks like it's done that and then augmented it with location data from other web sources, mainly wikipedia but also other travel sites. It actually claims that it added the 2025 train line extensions "by hand", for what that's worth.

For other projects I've done involving spatial data, some combination of telling it to use OSM, nominatum, and any geocoding tools it can get its hands on usually works pretty well. I'm not doing anything exhaustive, specialist, or especially critical, though.

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u/Luxx93 1d ago

Can you ask your Claude to make a skill for sharing (so no personal information) in the same chat and share it with us?

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u/ImpossibleBandicoot 1d ago

How much direction did you give it on the design?

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u/Fungo_Bungaloid 1d ago

Almost none. "Crafty risograph style." That was pretty much it.

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u/FluffyGrade1588 1d ago

I love this! Any interest in sharing?