http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11181
Bug ID: 11181
Summary: Koha geolocalization of OPAC users for better sort
results
Change sponsored?: ---
Product: Koha
Version: 3.14
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: new feature
Priority: P5 - low
Component: OPAC
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
QA Contact: [email protected]
As I suggest back on 2009
(http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Geolocalization-in-Koha-td3069181.html ) it
would be very nice if Koha could offer geolocation[0] (maybe using
openstreetmap.org or Google Maps API).
Having branches spread over a large territory make this feature very useful,
making the records of the searched material more near first in the result list.
Is possible to add some heuristics based on what people usually search for
nearby (as Google does).
There are some freely available databases[1], but also is possible to create
and improve one over time, based on location established on registered and
logged users, associating it with their IP address.
Some extra fields for each Library should be added to database (aside
code for geolocation and sorting OPAC results) like longitude and
latitude on Decimal Degrees, "DD"[2], and a system preference to
activate/deactivate this.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolocation
[1] http://www.ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees
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