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Looks really interesting, looking at your docs. I have an application using firebase + geofire where users can see things on a map, and those results are themse

Looks really interesting, looking at your docs. I have an application using firebase + geofire where users can see things on a map, and those results are themselves updated (ex. real time reactions). However, geofire limits me heavily because I can't add additional filtering (ex. timestamp) and lack of bbox queries. Can I use supabase's postgres + postgis setup, and support the same type of real time functionality where I can get a bbox result set to display on a map, and then when one of those items gets a reaction or something from some user, that change should propagate to anyone else who might have that particular item in their current map bbox result set. Just wondering if you know if that's possible. Thanks

kiwicopple 5y ago
Your use-case is completely plausible, and if there are any blockers then we would consider it a bug that needs fixing. Postgres + PostGIS + PostgREST are a perfect match, and over time we will make mapping a first class citizen with proper documentation. The Realtime server is just a layer on top of PostgreSQL, so I'm confident it will work out-of-the-box with PostGIS I haven't seen a lot of mapping use-cases in Supabase _yet_, but there are some: https://geoexamples.com/svelte/2021/07/18/svelte-supabase-maps.html/ https://geoexamples.com/svelte/2021/07/18/svelte-supabase-ma...