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Am I In Las Vegas? Sometimes it's hard to know, because the city limits have the complexity of a fractal curve.
http://amiinlasvegas.com/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Provide support for alternate geocoders #33

Open louh opened 10 years ago

louh commented 10 years ago

Currently we have rolled our own, but a user could find this application more redeployable for another area if the geocoder is replaceable. Common alternatives could be:

slooker commented 10 years ago

Hey Lou,

Who is working on their own geocoder at the city that we can get into contact to get some info from? Also, is the amiinlv app deployed anywhere besides where we've got it?

I was thinking of forking it and making it not node so that we can deploy it easily as a subdomain on an apache/nginx install.

shawn

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Lou Huang notifications@github.com wrote:

Currently we have rolled our own, but a user could find this application more redeployable for another area if the geocoder is replaceable. Common alternatives could be:

  • Google Geocoder APIhttps://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/
  • Geocode.io http://geocode.io/
  • Las Vegas is working on improving their own geocoder as well, which will address edge cases that only the city has information about right now.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/codeforamerica/amiinlv/issues/33 .

louh commented 10 years ago

Hey Shawn, we've been talking to Anthony Willis in the GIS department about that. They have information internally about edge cases that other geocoders miss, and it would be really great for the city, I think, if other geocoders (e.g. Google's) can incorporate their data easily so that there's parity across all the various geocoder services.

I don't think the app is deployed anywhere else that I know of, and feel free to port the code, since we left it in a pretty preliminary state. Just so you know, I've been attaching these hack request tags because the tech team at CfA is thinking of making these needs more transparent on the main CfA site. I was going to e-mail you and ask what you think about adding these on the food trucks repo(s) as well. Stay tuned.