Order by distance to event instead of Ordered by Longitude

openbrian / osm-microcosms

The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap

https://www.openstreetmap.org/

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Order by distance to event instead of Ordered by Longitude #26

Open cliffordsnow opened 4 years ago

cliffordsnow commented 4 years ago

Use the users home location for the calculations. Not sure how you get that. I'd also use as the crow flies rather than road which can be very misleading. I leave just across the Salish Sea from Victoria, BC which may be about the same distance to Seattle. However travel time is substantially more getting to Victoria. And a lot more expensive.

openbrian commented 4 years ago

I do like this idea. The user home location is optional and I'm not sure what percentage of users have that populated.

cliffordsnow commented 4 years ago

The longitude could be the backup. I'm going to ask Andy Alan if there is any idea of how many home locations are tagged and how difficult is it to get.