Show HN: Loqqus – Visualize, discover and share geotagged content

[loqqus]

Hey guys I created this site. Would love to get some feedback and will be happy to answer questions. There's a lot you can do with it, including reading/writing posts in any location around the world, searching for specific keywords, and following a geographic area. (ie. geofencing.)

One interesting way I was using it yesterday was to see what people are saying about ebola worldwide. A month ago there were almost no messages about it, but as you can see, people in the US, Western Europe, and Brazil are really freaking out now. (In fact, I learned yesterday of the first suspected Brazilian case by reading tweets about it on my own site. Pretty neat.) If you follow this link you'll see what I'm talking about: http://loqq.us/E

[virmundi]

So I'm try to access the site on my note 2. The little popup says to rotate wide. I am. Then I try to click on the search box. The popup returns and I can't type.

[syswarren]

Really cool. You should add your baseline to your website ("Visualize, discover and share geotagged content") somewhere so people can understand what's your product about.

[loqqus]

Thanks! That's a good idea. I definitely need to make some it easier to understand how to use it when you hit the landing page. Thinking about adding an explainer video too.

[tkoski]

well done. How have you done the map?

[loqqus]

Thanks! The map on the frontend side makes use of a nifty library called Leaflet, as well as Mapbox and OpenStreetMaps. On the backend side there's a bunch of python going on but that's part of the secret sauce. :)

[Abundnce10]

I'm curious as well.