What's the back-end of this look like? It looks like it's just bounding boxes stored as floats. Is that correct? If so, would you want to move to PostGIS or some other spatial DB? Then you could do really efficient comparisons/envelopes/hierarchies/etc.
FYI, I like the idea a lot, and I'm using your data for testing against the spatial DB I'm building (https://github.com/runderwood/grist/). -R. On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:24:12AM +0000, Steve Coast wrote: > This is really showing the cracks in the UI already by shoving the 'more' > link in there, but I wanted to get something shipped. > > The jquery autocomplete plugin isn't quite flexible enough to do what you > suggest also. > > I think the next things to get fixed are the ability to mark a geocode string > as not geocodable plus exposing some of the wiki-ish data behind it all like > old versions of bboxes, ability to delete and bring back synonyms. Stuff like > that. > > Steve > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:geowanking- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Steve Coast > > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:19 PM > > To: Laurence Penney > > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [Geowanking] opengeocoder.net now has basic synonym > > support > > > > Find your geocode, grab one of the handles, click "more..." > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Laurence Penney [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 4:12 PM > > > To: Steve Coast > > > Cc: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: [Geowanking] opengeocoder.net now has basic synonym > > > support > > > > > > How do I set up a new synonym? > > > > > > If I type "birmingham" I get no results but a suggestion of > > > "birmingham, england". I'd like a little button by that suggestion to > > > hook up my search with the suggestion. Or are you already stepping in > > > to avoid preferring UK over Alabama? > > > > > > - L > > > > > > On 21 Feb 2012, at 23:42, Steve Coast wrote: > > > > > > > ..that is all... > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Geowanking mailing list > > > > [email protected] > > > > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Geowanking mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org -- Reed Underwood | A Real Go-Getter | 617.708.4244 _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
