Show HN: Eventivore - Our Submission to the 36 hour Hacka2thon

Post by rgbrgb » Sun, Nov 13, 2011, 4:35 PM UTC

Post by mhseiden » Sun, Nov 13, 2011, 4:56 PM UTC

rgbrgb wrote: post #12

Every time I click a pin, a pop up comes up in the map view then immediately closes. Am I using this incorrectly?

Post by GBKS » Sun, Nov 13, 2011, 5:13 PM UTC

mhseiden wrote: post #15

GBKS wrote: post #13

Will you eventually have to pay for usage of Google Maps ( http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2011/10/introduction... ) if you go over 25000 views per day? I'm asking because I'm cooking up a similar concept, and the upcoming price increase of Google Maps makes me a bit hesitant to use them. The Google Maps Premier page, where my only option is to "Contact Sales" also doesn't seem very friendly to small sites an…

This was a hackathon project, so we haven't looked that far into the future quite yet. If we reach that point, then we'll consider all of the existing Map APIs and how well they fit into our application.

Post by brendino » Sun, Nov 13, 2011, 7:29 PM UTC

darklajid wrote: post #17

Might be me, but w/ my Firefox, sitting in Tel Aviv, I end up with a disabled/grey map of the US of A and a modal dialog box that has no title / a ~crappy~ style and asks me for a US zip code. [1] Not for me? 1: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1194203/Eventivore.png

Post by johncoltrane » Sun, Nov 13, 2011, 8:01 PM UTC

brendino wrote: post #18

darklajid wrote: post #17

Might be me, but w/ my Firefox, sitting in Tel Aviv, I end up with a disabled/grey map of the US of A and a modal dialog box that has no title / a ~crappy~ style and asks me for a US zip code. [1] Not for me? 1: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1194203/Eventivore.png

For now we're pretty much only targeting the US (hence the zip code thing). We originally had browser geo-location, but disabled that for a few reasons. We will re-enable it soon.