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I'd love to see this done in South Central Los Angeles.

by hugh3 15y ago

pavel_lishin 15y ago
It would be nice if they open-sourced it so people could make their own maps, teams, etc.
- shakes 15y ago
  I'm one of the developers who worked on the project. We actually have been discussing open sourcing the project for this reason. The biggest challenge is setting up the neighborhood constraints and getting the checkins to map correctly to those constraints. But it's on our radar, and we're open to any ideas people have.
  - iambot 15y ago
    provisional +1 for when you release the source on gitHub, looks like a brilliant idea though
  - pavel_lishin 15y ago
    Honestly, you could probably even keep it closed-source, so long as people could design their own map overlays. I'm not sure how foursquare works for this - I actually tried to work with the API so my computer could send my girlfriend a text whenever she checked into a shoe store - but it seemed impossible.
    - cbailey 15y ago
      If you were trying to discourage your girlfriend from purchasing shoes, this method would probably only discourage your girlfriend from checking in to shoe stores.
      - pavel_lishin 15y ago
        Granted; it was meant to be more of a humorous surprise for her. It also turned out to be much more of a challenge than I expected - there was no way to get a list of checkins for a friend, so I ended up setting up another account, friending her, and setting it to e-mail me whenever a friend checked in. The plan was to use Lamson to parse these e-mails, but apparently it depended on a library that - in a minor version upgrade - totally fucked everything that depended on it by arbitrarily renaming several functions. Unless you specifically installed fucktits version 2.2 - not 2.1, and god help you if you installed 2.3 - it wouldn't work. After three days, and help from a friend, I just tossed it all in the garbage and resigned myself to living under a pile of her shoes.
  - slowernet 15y ago
    May I ask where you sourced your neighborhood boundary KML? I could use this.
cpeterso 15y ago
Or go global!
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hoprocker 15y ago
Don't worry -- remember how craigslist used to only be for SF? You start your project static, then develop towards dynamicism. We'll be playing Fourcraft in Paris, Tokyo, and Buenos Aires, and they may even get enough of a playerbase to really take it international (Africa has control of Minnesota!).

I'd love to see this done in South Central Los Angeles.

by hugh3 15y ago

I'd love to see this done in South Central Los Angeles.

pavel_lishin 15y ago

It would be nice if they open-sourced it so people could make their own maps, teams, etc.

shakes 15y ago
I'm one of the developers who worked on the project. We actually have been discussing open sourcing the project for this reason. The biggest challenge is setting up the neighborhood constraints and getting the checkins to map correctly to those constraints. But it's on our radar, and we're open to any ideas people have.
- iambot 15y ago
  provisional +1 for when you release the source on gitHub, looks like a brilliant idea though
- pavel_lishin 15y ago
  Honestly, you could probably even keep it closed-source, so long as people could design their own map overlays. I'm not sure how foursquare works for this - I actually tried to work with the API so my computer could send my girlfriend a text whenever she checked into a shoe store - but it seemed impossible.
  - cbailey 15y ago
    If you were trying to discourage your girlfriend from purchasing shoes, this method would probably only discourage your girlfriend from checking in to shoe stores.
    - pavel_lishin 15y ago
      Granted; it was meant to be more of a humorous surprise for her. It also turned out to be much more of a challenge than I expected - there was no way to get a list of checkins for a friend, so I ended up setting up another account, friending her, and setting it to e-mail me whenever a friend checked in. The plan was to use Lamson to parse these e-mails, but apparently it depended on a library that - in a minor version upgrade - totally fucked everything that depended on it by arbitrarily renaming several functions. Unless you specifically installed fucktits version 2.2 - not 2.1, and god help you if you installed 2.3 - it wouldn't work. After three days, and help from a friend, I just tossed it all in the garbage and resigned myself to living under a pile of her shoes.
- slowernet 15y ago
  May I ask where you sourced your neighborhood boundary KML? I could use this.

cpeterso 15y ago

Or go global!

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hoprocker 15y ago

Don't worry -- remember how craigslist used to only be for SF? You start your project static, then develop towards dynamicism. We'll be playing Fourcraft in Paris, Tokyo, and Buenos Aires, and they may even get enough of a playerbase to really take it international (Africa has control of Minnesota!).