Provider finder to use local cache of organisation data

[stevenday]

We store lon/lat for each provider locally, so how will we do the location geo-coding if we're querying our data instead of the api? MapIt only does postcodes right?

[crowbot]

Geodjango gives us the ability to do bounding box searches, so I was thinking for postcode we query mapit for postcode to point - that gives us a lat and lon - then we do a bounding box search of providers. For name search we just do a string search constrained by whatever 'is it in the relevant city' check we have - if we were to get a set of outcodes for London for example, we could flag in our db which providers are in London. Is that what you're asking?

[stevenday]

Ah, yes, I was thinking we had to do searches like "London" where we geocode that to an area and return things inside that area - just postcodes and text search on names is great!

[crowbot]

Yeah we kept that out of the spec as I think it'd be hard to do well in the time we have for phase 2, and in addition is I think a less useful option for reporting an issue that for generic 'find a service' widgets - as if you're reporting an issue, you usually will know the name of the provider, having been there. If we do need to extend to a name based search, we'd need to use a gazeteer, either internally, or as a service.

[crowbot]

Closed in 7062cba1cc38fea5635f4514222f6759d9892515.