Hi all, Wondering how best to implement some basic geolocation stuff using Google Cloud products (and open source if appropriate)
I need to search user records I'm storing in Datastore, which include the user's address (in ordinary human readable text format) to see which other users are within a certain distance from them. Seems I can't do a geospatial search directly on Datastore records but found something that suggests a clever little mashup with Google's Search API: http://ralphbarbagallo.com/2013/05/14/app-engine-geospatial-datastore-search-a-new-way/ Questions: 1.) Is there any better (/more standard) way than what's suggested at that link? (I know Cloud SQL allows geospatial searches but ideally I want to use Datastore if possible to store my data in) 2.) Geospatial matches (at least using above techniques) need latitude and longitude - are there any Google APIs or open source PHP stuff I could use to convert addresses into lat/lon? I'm running on PHP AppEngine by the way and need a solution I can implement very quickly and easily if at all possible! Many thanks for any info/suggestions! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/80be5c2f-ae67-4ccc-825a-29b68fb6315a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
