What you have just explained seems to be a good option! Is the option to > use latitude and longitude a very common one? I'm not > as familiar as to which options of calculation have known to be the most > stable, usable, fast, or efficient. Or there is any common > knowledge about the such thing. >
Well with (lat, long) you can point to any place on earth, it's like having an (x,y) point on a cartesian plane. And yes, it is the standard method. > > Here's what I'm thinking. First the user enters their town for example so > Vienna, VA. Then they choose how far from their location so 25 miles. But > then they also have an advanced search option where they can refine their > request even more. They are able to play around with a Google Map on the > side and zoom into their physical house location on the map and put a > marker/point there of some sort. This could be lat/long I don't know yet. > This way if that data checks out they get and even more accurate > representation of the artists in their area. Any thoughts or opinions on > how you think I > should go about this? > > With the (lat,long) that belongs to the user position yo can then ask for a radius in blocks, meters o whatever. So, now you can get the surface of a circle and with some basic math you go through your db checking if any artist are inside the limit of that circle. > Thanks so much! > > JJ > > On Sunday, July 15, 2012 10:22:53 AM UTC-4, Nicolas Emiliani wrote: >> >> >> >> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:58 AM, JJ Zolper <codinga...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> So heres my goal: >>> >>> The user logins in and goes to a discover page. They enter a distance >>> from their location as the requested results scope. Lets say 25 miles from >>> where I live for example. Additionally they could pick like a genre or >>> music but not as important. >>> >>> So they hit seach and see in a 25 mile spanse in all directions in a >>> circle form the closest artists to their location. From there they can see >>> the top result and click that and step through the top results from 1 to 2 >>> to 3.... To top 10 and so on as much as their heart desires. >>> >>> So i was thinking maybe GeoIP might be good because it will use the >>> users location and last known GeoIP of the artist for example. >>> >>> >> I'm currently developing a project based on google maps, and it sounds >> that you might want to take a look at their API, >> You could use markers (latitude and longitude) for your artists, ask the >> user to place themselves on the map and then >> calculate if they are on the wanted area or not. >> >> https://developers.google.com/maps/ >> >> I was curious if anyone had any ideas or better ideas then I had. >>> >>> Thanks so much, >>> >>> JJ Zolper >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Django users" group. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/_ERIIZrolmUJ. >>> To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Nicolas Emiliani >> >> Lo unico instantaneo en la vida es el cafe, y es bien feo. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/tGFuC9PBd4kJ. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
