The backend looks like an asp.net MVC app on azure talking to a sql server azure db. It's funny, but MVC apps are now easier to write than rails in my experience.
Yes, currently it's just four floats. That is, the simplest possible thing that would work. SQL Server is capable of all the geo tomfoolery required. I can't think of an immediately compelling use case though. It might be nice on a detail page for "England" to see all the bboxes which are contained within it but there are higher priority things to get working right now so it will have to wait a little. Any other uses? Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Reed Underwood [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 6:02 AM > To: Steve Coast > Cc: Laurence Penney; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Geowanking] opengeocoder.net now has basic synonym > support > > 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
