[Nottingham] Social This Wed

[jdel]

i do realise the vast difference between LeftLion and nottingham.openguide, by the way.

jdel <hw68342003 at yahoo.com> wrote:i like the idea, i like the project.  i'm not sure if this is something that you don't wanna hear, but have you seen leftlion.co.uk?  They're open for public submissions and all, but they're not techno or geekno-centric.  Really.
 
but, very seriously, i'm dying to know how you mate geographic coordinates a la mapquest with a database of addresses.  ok, poorly phrased, but my biggest question is HOW does that work?  I mean, how do you get a database of streets and addresses and whatever like that?  
 
the reason WHY i'm so fascinated is because i have a similar project and have to develop a similar solution at some point.  (find services within x kilometer radius of point a) i was going to try to do it by postcode association but i'd rather something cleaner.  
 
jsh

James Green <jkg at jimbo.org.uk> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 07:45:41PM +0100, Martin wrote:

> And then again... There must be other cheap beer venues around the 
> city... Ideas? For debate?

Wouldn't it be great if there was some kind of geek-run, freely editable
online guide to Nottingham? Better yet, it could include metadata which
allowed you to (for instance) search for all pubs within 500 metres of a
given venue, and all the content could be under some suitable
copy-left-ish licence. It could even (since this _is_ a LUG list, after
all) run on a Linux server, using Apache, mysql and perl.

When I get back to Nottingham next month, I'm going to make a serious
attempt at writing more content for it, but for now, here it is:


James. Completely lacking in shame today :)
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