I think on balance you're right, this stuff is useful even for joe the plumber.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Reed Underwood [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 11:30 AM > To: Steve Coast > Cc: Reed Underwood; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Geowanking] opengeocoder.net now has basic synonym > support > > Other uses: > > - Finding overlapping and similar boxes. > - Building hierarchies: U.S.A. > Massachusetts > Boston > North End > - Finding (quickly) nearby boxes. > - Everything else anybody could conceivably want to do with a bounding box. > > > -R. > > On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 06:37:37PM +0000, Steve Coast wrote: > > 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 > > -- > Reed Underwood | A Real Go-Getter | 617.708.4244 _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
