CD47-Bot

[Ryan Albright]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Well, giving rep points to someone who is "beyond repute" still increases the number of rep points they can give or take away from people, so it's not entirely useless, I suppose.

ya i know my post was a joke, was not met to be taken serious

[Kyle Love]

CD-47bot deserves a vacation. I know we all will have this question, where's it going? Florida maybe? Bahamas?

[Ryan Albright]

Originally Posted by Kyle45

CD-47bot deserves a vacation. I know we all will have this question, where's it going? Florida maybe? Bahamas?

Well if he wants to come to orlando he can stay with me, i can him free tickets to universal since i work there

[Venkatesh]

He is going to Disneyworld. End of Story. There is no better place for a long-hailed FIRST hero than EPCOT.

[Barry Bonzack]

Originally Posted by Venkatesh

He is going to Disneyworld. End of Story. There is no better place for a long-hailed FIRST hero than EPCOT.

Couldn't agree more. (there, that should make my sponsors happy. )

[Greg Marra]

How does the distance-based searching work that makes it so difficult to set up properly?

I would have thought that a bunch of X-Y coords (GPS, even) for the zips and then some Pythagorean math would be all you need.

How are you doing it?

[Brandon Martus]

The process isn't difficult -- finding the time to do so is.

I downloaded a database of all US zipcodes, and their Latitude/Longitudes. Then, calculated the distance between every combination (using formulas in the zipdy code)

The data isn't ready to go yet, and with work as hectic as it is (12+ hour days, 6+ days a week, till late December) I won't be able to get it working. I'm guessing around Christmas you will be able to search by zipcode.

I may end up using that data for other stuff too, who knows. It sure did take a long time to calculate and upload (7GB CSV file for distances < 500miles)