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Feature Request: Search for a new house using its approximation of a POI like a subway, mall or something like that.
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Feature Request: Search for a new house using its approximation of a POI like a subway, mall or something like that.

Here is how you can achieve it:

  1. When your user are adding a new house for sale/rent they also provide its address.
  2. With this address you are able to convert it to a latitute,longitude (x,y).
  3. With this x,y you are able to use a service like Google Places API and store on your database the proximity of a lot of useful POIs from the house itself.
  4. Now that you have all those nearby POIs stored and its distances from the provided address, you are able to provide a freaking awesome search for your users.
  5. Now you can for example search for a house or appartment, for rent, in Lisbon, which is 1-2km near of a subway or a train station.
  6. How? With postgres you can use extensions like cube or earthdistance. Or with a no-sql solution using Geospatial index (2d).
  7. Data is king.
  8. Thank you.
  • Or am I the only one who thinks that everything done so far doesn't work?
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