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16 Maps, Geolocation, and GeoSearch:

Geo-spatial Search with Geocoder and Google Maps

Maps, Geolocation, and GeoSearch Series
1. Geolocation and Search with Geocoder 2. How to use Google Maps and Markers 3. Geo-spatial Search with Geocoder and Google Maps 4. Geo-spatial Search with Searchkick and ElasticSearch 5. Making GeoSearch smooth with AJAX

Episode 206 · September 12, 2017

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This episode, we'll clone Yelp / Airbnb's geosearch functionality using the Geocoder gem

Search Maps Geocoding

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Nick McNeany (7,150 XP)

Awesome episode! Really enjoying the maps and geolocation episodes!

Thanks, Chris!

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daniel T.

I really love de geolocation series,

Are you going to keep uploading more videos about this series?

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Chris Oliver (179,250 XP)

Sure can, do you have any topics you're curious about?

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daniel T.

hello!!
yes, I would like to know how to refresh the markers each time that the map is dragged without refresh the whole map.

that would be amazing

regards!

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Mads Ellesgaard (520 XP)

+1 Elastic Search!

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Omar Khedr (7,280 XP)

Love this episode!! Thanks Chris! Question though are there any disadvantage in using geocoder? And instead relying on Google Maps Javascript API?

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Nick McNeany (7,150 XP)

Another cool idea, would be the ability to update the map with locations near a user based on their location/ip address, either automatically or with a manual reload. I know this is difficult to do in development, but would love to see this.

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Chris Oliver (179,250 XP)

Not as difficult as you might think. The HTML5 geocoding API will get you an IP address quickly, so you can send that over as a different param and pass that into the .near() method. This will be a great screencast. :D

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Josh Cooper (10,200 XP)

+1 Elastic Search

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Diogo (1,810 XP)

Would be awesome if it does the "Redo Search in this area" without clicking on the button

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Shairyar Baig (110 XP)

Does this series cover displaying the distance between two markers or coordinates?

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Chris Oliver (179,250 XP)

I mentioned the geocoder gem comes with some calculations methods. One of those is for distance between two points. You can use that, just check the readme.

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Shairyar Baig (110 XP)

Let me rephrase my question :)

Does this series cover displaying of route between two markers? Suppose I select Marker A and then select Marker B then the route should be displayed between the two, is this feature covered in this series?

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Chris Oliver (179,250 XP)

Not at the moment, but that's as simple as adding a couple lines of code to your JS. Check out the route examples: https://hpneo.github.io/gma...

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