Like the idea of using Geohashes to quickly search for "near" objects and then using the client's processing to extract lat/lngs. I've setup postgis before and

Like the idea of using Geohashes to quickly search for "near" objects and then using the client's processing to extract lat/lngs. I've setup postgis before and it was more of a hassle than I wanted it to be. This alleviates some of the pain :)