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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 setti
by 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 agoprovisional +1 for when you release the source on gitHub, looks like a brilliant idea though
- pavel_lishin 15y agoHonestly, 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 agoIf 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 agoGranted; 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 agoMay I ask where you sourced your neighborhood boundary KML? I could use this.