I appreciate the input! I've given the whole GeoIP and geolocation idea some thought and for me I think I've decided for my desktop version to steer clear of those sort of options for the time being. Why? Well I want their to be extreme flexibility but also very accurate information. What do I mean? Well:
First the user enters their town for example so Vienna, VA. Then they choose how far from their location so 25 miles. But then they also have an advanced search option where they can refine their request even more. They are able to play around with a Google Map on the side and zoom into their physical house location on the map and put a marker/point there of some sort. This could be lat/long I don't know yet. This way if that data checks out they get an even more accurate representation of the artists in their area. Any thoughts or opinions on how you think I should go about this? Currently I don't know if I will end up using Lat/Long as I'm too far to the beginning of development but it's a current option unless I hear of new things. As you pointed out its tricky. Well, I can't confirm that quite yet. But I do appreciate you giving me what you used to make the Lat/Long work. I see that MongoDB is NoSQL? Do you use NoSQL for everything you are doing? I'm currently on PostgreSQL and I'm not sure how that would tie into my project yet. What specs do you have? What system are you running? Thanks, JJ On Sunday, July 15, 2012 11:30:16 AM UTC-4, Markus Gattol wrote: > > You can use geolocation > https://developers.google.com/maps/articles/geolocation and if that's not > accurate enough let the user provide his address and with it query Google's > https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/geocoding API > > The tricky bit here is if you want to get the lat/lng back onto your > server so you can store it in your database. I ended up using > https://github.com/abourget/gevent-socketio and store stuff in MongoDB > using mongoengine. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/xmnp4mmWs2QJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
