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Geonames has a good dataset of locations, and OpenStreetMaps has the regional boundary data.
So given something like "Boston, Massachusetts, USA" would take all the locations within the boundary box of "USA" and find the closest match to "Massachusetts" (using something like soundex), and then within Massachusetts find the closest match to "Boston" and return the long/lat.
A good geocoder. Geonames has a good dataset of locations, and OpenStreetMaps has the regional boundary data. So given something like "Boston, Massachusetts, USA" would take all the locations within the boundary box of "USA" and find the closest match to "Massachusetts" (using something like soundex), and then within Massachusetts find the closest match to "Boston" and return the long/lat.
A good geocoder. Geonames has a good dataset of locations, and OpenStreetMaps has the regional boundary data. So given something like "Boston, Massachusetts, USA" would take all the locations within the boundary box of "USA" and find the closest match to "Massachusetts" (using something like soundex), and then within Massachusetts find the closest match to "Boston" and return the long/lat.
Hmm, a good geocoder sounds a bit ambigous to me. As far as I can tell geonames has an API with both XML and JSON for getting longitude and latitude off of city names, so I am not sure what exactly you believe can be improved by crossing data from OpenStreeMaps. Could you maybe clarify exactly what you had in mind?
For example geonames fails for "Southsea, Hampshire, UK" as even though Southsea is in geonames and falls within the regional boundary of Hampshire, geonames doesn't have that knowledge. OSM has the regional boundary data which can be used for that purpose.
Also once you have that you can do looser matching. For example if you search Geonames for "Bosten, MA, USA" it won't find anything. If you used soundex for an approximate search for "Bosten" you'll turn up lots of unrelated locations, but if you did it restricting it to places in "MA, USA" you'd have a much better chance of getting an accurate match.
While this isn't such a big issue in latin-alphabet countries, in the rest of the world latin-spelling of smaller town and city names is often completely unstandardized so using exact search often misses the town/city even though it might be listed in geonames under a slightly different spelling.
I have all of the data on an excel spread sheet pertaining to my sample area. I have 90 Restaurants, the operating hours, the prices of food, the types of food, the addresses, contact info.
A website that could show people what they could eat based off of the amount of time they have available, the amount of money they have, and the types of food they would like to eat.
The website or app would be able to produce results based off of the constraints provided by the user, and my data.
Show Operating hours and update in real time
Show directions to and from restaurant
List genres of Food and Drink Type
Show User comments and recommendations by integrating Yelp, Foursquare, Twitter
Business Model would offer restaurants a subscription service to offer deals, news, to users. Advertisements may also be streamed to generate additional revenue.
Pain Points: 1)Adult Actors/Actresses get maybe 1% of the long term returns on the content they appear in.
2)Making their own site, setting up a way to let clients pay, and figuring out how to get streaming videos to work, are all way too hard for the average performer and lead to them being stuck accepting the 1% mentioned above.
Note: I would use it for my site, as I am also an adult film actress (a transgender one) and this is something I plan to build for myself and my peers at some point in the future, and it would be great to just contribute to the open source project rather than starting from scratch.
An open source web app/tool for adult film actresses/actors to easily make their own monthly subscription based websites with an api that people can use as a basis for a smart phone app that does the same thing. Pain Points: 1)Adult Actors/Actresses get maybe 1% of the long term returns on the content they appear in. 2)Making their own site, setting up a way to let clients pay, and figuring out how to get streaming v…