Talk:Implementations

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iPhone Implementation

Last night I finished a rough implementation of this to the iPhone 2.0 Beta SDK. Right now it uses your current location and date and then does the math, then gives you a map with the destination address along with directions to there from where you are at. This will be even more useful if the next 3G iPhone come with GPS, until then it uses it's less accurate cellular and wifi location tools to locate you. I plan on adding a way to select your date and your desired graticule as well. Eventually I'll also investigate filtering of the results in watery areas. I can't distribute it currently, but as soon as I can I'll make it available. -- Shakedown

Suggested alternatives support added to the official implementation

I just added (with User:Cwolves doing most of the work) support for suggesting alternative meeting points, if the official point is difficult/impossible/illegal to get to. I know there are still a few bugs in the voting buttons, but I'll be working to fix them. Any issues should be reported here or in #geohashing. Zigdon 21:24, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Display meetups for adjacent graticules

Has anyone ever suggested having the official implementation display all the meetups in the eight graticules adjacent to the one selected? This would be another handy way to easily spot possible alternative meetup spots, especially if the graticule has members concentrated on the edge between two or more graticules (like New Orleans, for example). -- Histumness

I wrote something (outside of the wiki) to generate wikicode for links to neighbors, and also to "last Saturday", "next saturday" and optionally to other days. Here is a the asp/vbscript code and a ReadME file: NaviCodeGen (NAVIgational CODE GENerator)

I would be happy if this could become part of the "official implementation"

m5rammy 19:32, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Spam

Isn't it possible to ban an IP address? (I'm new around.) --Tom 13:09, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Done. Zigdon 17:44, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

propose better Flickr (and/or others) tagging

When dealing with tagging, it would be good the be able to search for a given graticule.

So xkcd could recommend, in addition to the "geohashing" tag, something like "graticule45N8E" (that would by my area ;)

-Luca

See earlier discussion on this matter. Standard photoservice tags are: "geohashing"; "geohashing(N|S)##(E|W)###" (with the graticule numbers, not zero-padded); and "geohashingYYYYMMDD" (with the date, zero-padded). Note that the word "geohashing" is used in all cases.

For example, a photo from 40,-79 on 2008-06-07 would receive the tags "geohashing", "geohashingN40W79", and "geohashing20080607". Of course, the success and utility of this method are dependent on its use by the Geohashing community. Hope this helps! --Tim P 13:51, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

integrate OSM name finder?

How about integrating the OSM name finder integrated in some of the notification services.

http://gazetteer.openstreetmap.org/namefinder/

It gives nearby places for various searches, and has a fairly comprehensible XML API. For example, todays location in my graticule yields:

http://gazetteer.openstreetmap.org/namefinder/?find=52.792982%2C+13.119747

requested location found about 6km north of suburb Vehlefanz in Oberkrämer, Oberhavel, Brandenburg, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Europe (which is about 5km south-east of town Kremmen in Oberhavel, Brandenburg, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Europe and about 40km north of city Potsdam in Potsdam, Brandenburg, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Europe)

here's a url for it: http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=52.792982&lon=13.119747&zoom=12

Searches for other mapped features like "pubs near x,y" and "phone booths near x,y" work just as well. It works best, of course, in areas well-mapped on OpenStreetMap. And if your area is not well-mapped - you know how to use a GPS, right? ;)