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Already got the idea and published it. Frankly the 1km radius is not a good idea, it will flood messages in crowded area, and display none in others.
by jokoon 9y ago
Already got the idea and published it.
Frankly the 1km radius is not a good idea, it will flood messages in crowded area, and display none in others.
- vasanthv 9y agoYes agreed. But is a good distance to cover a small neighbourhood or campus.
- codingdave 9y agoYes, and that can bring a sense of community to a place that doesn't already have one. But I'm unsure how many neighborhoods or campuses would both not already have some ways of communicating... yet still want to create one. Physical proximity removes communications barriers, so you are solving a problem that may not exist.
- vasanthv 9y agoYes but unless they both are in same room. Imagine a soccer match or any tech event. These are some use cases I thought of while building this.
- afarrell 9y agoPerhaps draw a Voronoi diagram of pubs in the UK and use that?
- timrichard 9y agoThis occurred to me as well about 7yrs ago (did nothing about it, naturally.... :-} ). I think I was going to christen it HocSoc (ad-hoc social network). I was thinking about getting around that feast or famine scenario by encoding the user location as a geohash. And then chop off one char of precision from the end of the hash string on successive DB queries until a large enough group of people were included. Nice and easy to store and query the location as a plain string in the DB, too. Although - I was trying to figure out what to do about Greenwich near me, as that's where the most significant bit alters because of the prime meridian.