Hi folks, I'm working on a project that requires users to be able to search for a teacher or school (for yoga, but that's not really important) within their neighbourhood. There are two main scenarios: Someone who just wants to find a place near them and someone who knows of a teacher/school and wants to find it.
We have a database with all the names and addresses and, of course, can try listing these via postcode or suburb, but this usually is a bit of a failure for people living very near a different code/suburb. The Google Maps API is useful, but the density of results in a city can sometimes make it pretty useless with lots of zooming in and out and scrolling about to find anyone. Does anyone have any design patterns or examples where something like this is well implemented? (By the way, I had a look on Peter Morville's http://searchpatterns.org/ site - I don't have the book yet - but, oh irony, I couldn't find anything quite like what I was looking for when I searched. Maybe there is some terminology for such a search that I'm not aware of). ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
