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Athensworks / startlocal

A Meteor app to help aggregate local resources.
http://startlocal.meteor.com
MIT License
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Locality #1

Open rickychilcott opened 10 years ago

rickychilcott commented 10 years ago

Add GPS coordinates for each post, which will allow posts to be tied to a specific region

benlachman commented 10 years ago

I'm not sure if this makes sense. Why not just add an address?

rickychilcott commented 10 years ago

We could have an address, but it's far more limiting when trying to do geospacial calculations. If we want to add a Map View (#6), then we'll need geolocation points to easily plot these on a map. The way I envision this is that posts would have an address, but then that would be translated to GPS coords upon save

benlachman commented 10 years ago

Hmmm. I think we should just store the address since that's human readable and cache the GPS version of it.

rickychilcott commented 10 years ago

I could get behind that. We'll need the following:

Attribute Name Type
Address String
City String
State String
Country String
Zip String
Lat Float
Lon Float

And we could use the https://github.com/wyattdanger/geocoder library to look up addresses