top | item 34690431 (no title) ankit_mishra | 3 years ago Is it a possibility to have some sort of offline database to query against ? Or maybe that would make the app to heavy. Could be a "opt-in" download. discuss order hn newest mazzystar|3 years ago Maybe an offline mapping table + a bit of similarity algorithm can roughly solve this problem, just not too precise for cities. geocar|3 years ago Why not? How many cities do you think there are?Including a dump of just lat/lon/rad->city from openstreetmap probably kilobytes. Including towns and features might be low megabytes. load replies (1)
mazzystar|3 years ago Maybe an offline mapping table + a bit of similarity algorithm can roughly solve this problem, just not too precise for cities. geocar|3 years ago Why not? How many cities do you think there are?Including a dump of just lat/lon/rad->city from openstreetmap probably kilobytes. Including towns and features might be low megabytes. load replies (1)
geocar|3 years ago Why not? How many cities do you think there are?Including a dump of just lat/lon/rad->city from openstreetmap probably kilobytes. Including towns and features might be low megabytes. load replies (1)
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geocar|3 years ago
Including a dump of just lat/lon/rad->city from openstreetmap probably kilobytes. Including towns and features might be low megabytes.