I thought that was the goal of places like geopinions.com and platial.com and some of those home-grown mapping sites, that you could use their API and put up a list of various inputs from your data and their API would do the map/logistical work.
The larger issue with doing something that your describing is the accuracy of data. I.e. what constitutes as "kickass Mexican food" in one person's mind might be Taco Bell. Having said that, you do have a good idea. I have seen some implementations of similar "related searches" on Java midlets on mobile phones. The "Yahoo! Go" thing I installed last week on my phone does some of that, including with maps. Also, some of the very sophisticated car nav systems do this too. You should search some of the Java/PHP dev. mailing lists, there are people that are talking about putting some of these things together, and they're probably always looking for more input. On 24Mar2007 11:26AM (-0700), Roger Rustad wrote: > I'm surprised that nobody hasn't thought of this: > > A site that not only tells you where stuff is, but also tells you how > far other things are from that place. > > Say you're wanting to change your oil, and while you're waiting you want > to catch a movie. I might drive another, say, 5 miles out of my way to > make that happen, or even way further if I could take care of a bunch of > other errands at the same time and eat some kickass Mexican food. > > What do you guys think? With all of the open APIs out there, I'd > imagine that the individual pieces are there, all someone has to do now > is snap them together. > _______________________________________________ > 909linux mailing list > [email protected] > http://909linux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/909linux -- /* david kaiser (NO SPAM/UCE) pubkey=1C8DCC8D begin e-mail decoder */ main() {int j=-1;char t[]="gndlvhuCfgn1frp\r";while(t[j]!='\r'){putchar(t[++j]-3);}0;}
