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Can you elaborate on how your site is differentiated from the other websites that perform this function? It appears that the group-based tool might be unique.
Have you considered weighting the locations of your participants?
If four people live in Los Angeles and one person lives in SF, it stands to reason that the ideal location isn't halfway between LA and SF (but rather it would be closer to LA). It should minimize net person-miles traveled by the group.
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> Have you considered weighting the locations of your participants?
- Yes. Just Updated.
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@searchresults@inishchith For LA and SF specifically, weighted would be better because there isn't much in the middle. However, generally speaking if its weighted then why not just have the person come over? The middle should simply be the middle, right? Or maybe the option of weighted or unweighted?
Hello, PH world. 🙂
Meet In The Middle is just a fun idea on which i've been working for last couple of days.
The WebApp suggests places to hangout which is closer to every friend of yours on the map!.
• Basically exploiting the features provided by Google Maps API along with the concept of InterWeb [ PubNub helped me here :P ]
• All your friends share the same view as yours
Find more about the implementation : https://github.com/inishchith/Me...
Thanks!
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Awesome idea! It seems like it's finding the midway point taking driving as the default form of transportation. Any chance there's a way to make public transportation or walking the method?
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Great idea, would be cool to have an option to hide the inputted addresses and only show the midpoint area!
@superspookyuser there's a close option to hide the resultBox. in case you mean the input markers, I don't think that would be great.
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@inishchith No I do mean the input markers, atm this can only work for two+ people who are okay to share their home addresses with each other. But If you want to meet someone on, say, craigslist you wouldn't want that person to know where you live, but the midpoint radius would still be useful to both people, if they are meeting from far away.
@superspookyuser That's a great. Never thought of it. It'll be easy to incorporate, only thing that bothers me is that the extra buttons would just affect the user experience. Still a great thought, i'll try to work around. Thanks ;)
It's not weighed... Meaning that if you have 2 friends in stop A, and 1 friend in spot B, it will still be halfway, rather than 33% from Spot A, so total travelled distance is minimized.
Also - after adding around 4-6 addresses, Google Maps Query limiter kicks in. You might need to throttle and show loading animation. I need 7-10 addresses frequently.
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