Questions tagged [geospatial]
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How much better is using quad trees than simple relational database for storing location data?
I want to store and find back driver location data in the standard design uber/lyft problem.
I was researching about possible system design. Several videos and tutorials usually describe storing ...
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designing an order management and dispatch management system for couriers
I'm studying to develop an order management system and order dispatch for the couriers, this is a personal project, for study purposes.
Some important points about the deliverymen, they are bikers and ...
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Strategy for dealing with geolocation and geocoding inaccuracies
For a mobile app, we are using the Google APIs for geolocation and geocoding. The basic use case is to find entities within a certain radius (in the range of a couple of kilometers) of each other.
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How to represent Spacial Time Series data in json clearly?
Currently, I have an application generating time series spacial data. The data is weather data with coordinates and a time of reading.
I would like to receive chunks of the data in a time series way ...
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Patterns for keeping two states in sync?
A problem been thinking on...
I'm on an application that involves two web maps, both showing the same data but in slightly different situations basically (say a different basemap or projection, etc)......
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Collection and delivery algorithm
I need some help finding references to solutions to this problem. This is the basis of a real-world application I'm working on, rather than an academic problem.
There are 4 main objects:
Water (...
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How can I efficiently find out if X is in any of N ranges of L-R numbers?
This is part of a bigger problem, which is to find out if point XYZ exists in any of n (XYZ -> XYZ) "boxes".
I'm currently splitting up the problem into a smaller one, by focusing on one dimension ...
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Options for managing a multi-purpose web service?
I have a web service that serves two purposes.
On a weekly basis, it syncs records from the GIS DB to a workorder management system's database.
On a continual basis, it serves up the records to a web ...
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Storing and filtering spatial data within RAM
I'm trying to figure out what's the proper way of storing and filtering spatial data inside a running program.
I have a 2D map of theoretically infinite size. Users generate objects which are placed ...
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What are formats to store geographic maps for a robot to travel point A to point B
Very beginner. Need to compute route from A to B for a robot. i would like to know how to store area map and compute the route. I can compute shortest path etc using algorithms e.g. dijkstra. What ...
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Evaluate http reqres vs websockets for geolocation based broadcasts
My use case is that I have a real-time broadcast app where users get feed items based on a geolocation, i.e. a user will receive posts that were broadcasted from within a user-defined radius where (s)...
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Self hosting map vector tiles for web application
I'm building a web application, which involves (currently) a REST backend and a frontend SPA. The backend is hosting massive geo-enabled data, and the frontend is displaying it on a mapbox map. I'm ...
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Handle country specific properties such as price and currency
I have an architecture front-end / back-end, specifically an Android app and a backend. I want that the app user can see different prices and currencies depending on their geo-localization.
So my ...
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How to store data at various point in time? [closed]
What are the techniques and technologies that people use to store spatial data over time that performs fast when querying?
For example, you have a map where people add data at certain locations over ...
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Android intent: Using ?q= in a geo: URI [closed]
I noticed that the Airbnb Android app sends such an intent to open a map app at a particular latitude/longitude:
geo:0:0?q=77.77%2C88.88
From my simplistic point of view, they should use the standard ...
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