I will agree in principle with the HT by location comment; however,
every EQ I have ever
been in has used location as a factor in their decision making before
taking the matter before
the Lord. Sometimes, things change so that people on the opposite ends
of the ward are
paired together as a companionship or as a HT family. That's the
inspiration part coming
into play.
As to no inspiration as to where you buy your house? That's total
hogwash. If you want it,
it's there - but God will not do the legwork for you.
There is a use for an application like this as part of the initial
sorting out process for
families and companionships. The rest of it lies with the EQ Presidency
and the Lord.
...Paul
Steven Peterson wrote:
Isn't the idea of home / visiting teaching assignments by location sorta
missing the point, there isn't inspiration to where you buy your house?
:Steve
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bryan Murdock
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 11:13 PM
To: LDS Open Source Software
Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] a new application
That's a pretty cool idea. Without thinking about if for more than 5
seconds, I'll hazard that it'd probably be fairly easy to whip this up
using google maps:
http://www.google.com/apis/maps/
Bryan
On 9/1/05, Arthur Westover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I was thinking it would be nice to develop an
application that would allow someone to quickly tell
who lives close to whom in a ward.
This would be useful for hometeaching and visiting
teaching assignments, esp. with the rising costs of
transportation. While this might not be a big deal in
areas with high Mormon population densities, it does
play a role in other areas where members of a ward can
be spread out over many miles.
So the way I would envision it is that the program
first creates a database with all families. Then
using a utility (example -->
http://www.gpsvisualizer.com/convert?form=address )
is able to assign a GPS location to each house based
on the address. Then when the user calls upon a name,
you could see how many families lived within a
specified radius.
I have zero programming experience, so I'm afraid I
can do no more than suggest this idea and participate
in testing. I take that back. I did a semester of
fortran some 15 years ago, but I don't think that
counts. :)
Arthur
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