http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1115412
has quite a few tips. On Dec 29, 3:12 am, Jason Brower <encomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I know we can find good inforamtion geographical stuff in teh web2py > manual. But is there a way to, for example, find things in a search > area around a coordinate? > My guess is that I should do the following: > Get the logged in users geo information (lat and long) > Get the distance away that I want to search around that person and > calculate the lat and logitudes of that area... > Find if the lat and log of the items.lat and items.long in my database > are within the regions of the users.lat and users.log and the (areas.lat > and areas.long)* for for four directions. > Does that make sences? Would that be the best aproach? > Best Regards, > Jason Brower
