I liked looking at this.

Every cafe is different and cafes in each country vary heavily by city and area and I am not sure if I have recommendations on how to make crowd sourced data more reliable but I like the work done.

Opened it fully wanting to vote Yes on Taiwan. Saw it was already top of the safety list. Beautiful country and people.

Good idea, but a hard dealbreaker issue: clicking "Yes, totally" or "Hell no" is never accepted, as it always returns "Couldn't verify you're human — please try again.". Clicking a country in the list will also show a white page. But keep going, you have built something useful here my friend ;)

The "trick" that worked for me so far is to ask the person in the next table nicely if I can leave it by their side for a moment.

Statistically they're more likely to be honest rather than a thief of opportunity

In the UK, it's very regional, even in the same city (e.g. London).

Something similar is the lost wallet test:

https://reddit.com/r/europe/comments/ijboze/study_of_civic_h... source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aau8712

https://web.archive.org/web/20190327101602/https://www.rd.co...

This reminds me of Hoodmaps, lightweight crowdsourcing with immediate utility. Main issue is probably self reporting bias, people may vote based on national pride rather than risk levels.

The mobile navigating is a bit iffy. I can accidentally click on a country when zooming in

its not just country-level, its city-size level too. lived in a town of 5k where everyone knew each other's cars, left my bike unlocked for weeks. moved to a city of 500k and someone took a jacket from a bar stool in 20 minutes. the variable is population density and how many repeat faces you see

Australian here, and the differing wording on the site kind of changes my answer. I believe I 'can' but also that I 'wouldn't'.

I'm not worried about theft, but see 'reserving' a seat like that as rude, and 10 minutes as longer than is reasonable.

(Pragmatically – I’m more concerned about having an awkward interaction with a barista that cleared the table and put the laptop somewhere, than about someone stealing the laptop)