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niryariv / tiptipa

Mobile friendly minisite for location nearby Polio vaccination centers in Israel
http://tipa.li/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Add "stations near you" list #6

Closed alonisser closed 11 years ago

alonisser commented 11 years ago

I think the basic algorithm is -

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alonisser commented 11 years ago

maybe we can use this plugin to add a context menu with this option.

@niryariv my only problem with implementing the algorithm (client side in js) is how to display it correctly in the webapp, probably just showing a div isn't a good solution. any tips? Ididn't do a leaflet project before.

niryariv commented 11 years ago

i know it might sound crazy, but i really like the current UI - in my mind it's almost perfect :)

the reason is that it asks very little of the user. you just open the site on a phone browser, click "ok" when it asks to access your location, and you get a map of stations around you.

users can immediately see which stations are nearby, and pick one - they do a better job than we could, because the user knows that station A might be 2 km closer than B, but it's hard to find parking there, or the traffic is bad etc.

this is really a minimal, single use application: open it and see the stations near you. touch them to see more details if you like, zoom in or out etc - basically i expect the user will use this one time, choose the station to go to and never use the app again (until the next epidemic..)

alonisser commented 11 years ago

@niryariv agreed. closing