stewsnooze

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by stewsnooze 16y ago
We chose mongodb after reading this page http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Geospatial+Indexing Before then we were looking at Postgres for its geo stuff and things like cassandra also.
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by stewsnooze 16y ago
If you try it on your iphone or android it will automatically get the local data.
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by stewsnooze 16y ago
Check out this code for searching locally with mongo. It doesn't get simpler. Straight from geosay.com class GeosayController < ApplicationController def api expires_in 1.minutes, :public => true results = Tweet.near(p
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by stewsnooze 16y ago
Anytime! We think that foursquare is great but there is simply more scope for local information than just showing information about venues.
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by stewsnooze 16y ago
That would be cool. It would rock to have geosay stuff on the street view map
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by stewsnooze 16y ago
One thing we weren't sure of was whether to automatically populate the map when you arrive. So by default it will just try to locate you (on the desktop edition) then you need to actually search. Do you think it would be better to auto load
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by stewsnooze 16y ago
We try and get a real geo lookup from your browser basically using HTML 5 JS if your browser supports. If you have gears it will fall back to that, if I remember correctly that is!, then it will go to maxmind.com javascript service to try a
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by stewsnooze 16y ago
I think it is super interesting because I doubt those buildings would end up on foursquare. We want this to become a place for local information that doesn't have to be bar or restaurant focussed.
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by stewsnooze 16y ago
It looks like we built something that needs people to click everywhere else apart from our app!!
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by stewsnooze 16y ago
Fish takes Bishop?
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by stewsnooze 16y ago
I should have also said that you need to tweet from a client that posts your geo lat/lon
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by stewsnooze 16y ago
Yes. You should be able to find all sorts of stuff. Whilst right now it mainly collects from foursquare tips and geolocated tweets it can also permanently store tweets marked #geosay on geosay.com There is also an iphone/android mobile ver
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Ask HN: Please help and review my weekend project. Geosay.com(geosay.com)
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