Hi folks,
I'm working on a project that requires users to be able to search
for a teacher or school (for yoga, but that's not really important)
within their neighbourhood. There are two main scenarios: Someone who
just wants to find a place near them and someone who knows of a
teacher/school and
Sorry, I forgot to mention this is simply a web site, not for a mobile
device (well, not yet).
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I'm still up for more suggestions, but Air BnB seems pretty nice:
http://www.airbnb.com/
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Hi Andy,
It might be worth taking a look at everyblock.com or dopplr.com as
they show a lot of information in both textual and map display
alongside each other - might give you some inspiration.
everyblock.com may be especially helpful as they group results
together at different zoom levels.
In
Andy,
If you have exact addresses for businesses (rather than just zip),
the Google Maps query can get more precise latitude/longitude, so if
the user supplies an address you could give a more accurate sorted
list (maybe sorted by proximity initially). The grouping on
everyblock.com is really
Thanks for the everyblock.com link %u2013 I hadn't seen that (I live
in Germany, so not much use to me). It's got a pretty rocking
interface and the grouping into number counts is a nice approach to
that clustering problem.
It's looking like the Google API can do what we need, the question
for
