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dancerfly / django-brambling

Event website manager, specifically designed for dance weekends or other events with multiple simultaneous tracks of classes.
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Geographic data #205

Open harrislapiroff opened 10 years ago

harrislapiroff commented 10 years ago

Let's offer geographic data to organizers. Mean/median distance of attendees, distance for each row, maybe even maps of attendee locations for ease of ride coordination?

melinath commented 10 years ago

Charts and graphs! We could probably cache the distance on the row rather than re-computing it each time.

melinath commented 9 years ago

I think for now we should just offer charts of where folks hail from. Later on we an add the data described here.

harrislapiroff commented 9 years ago

I wanna make maps!

melinath commented 9 years ago

So I thought this would be a lotta work, but it turns out if we can get the lat/long of cities where folks are coming from, we can use math to calculate distance. i.e. we don't need to have a Geo DB of the entire country, which is what I had thought we'd need. :-p

harrislapiroff commented 9 years ago

There are geocoder services that do that (usually free up to a limit, then pay per request) but they could also easily take addresses and do it for more precision. If we don't wanna pay for a geocoder service, there are freely available databases that map US zip codes to long/lat coords.