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Re:Ask HN: Anyone interested in meeting other HNers? by ramanujam on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @11:46AM (#2071473)
It would be nice to add location info to each entry rather than expecting the person to mention it in the content. This could also be helpful to create a tag cloud or location based filters in the future.
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Re:Ask HN: Anyone interested in meeting other HNers? by pamelafox on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @03:14PM (#2072295)
I would suggest having folks enter their city, geocoding it, and then saving that lat/long into the database so it can be visualized as a map later.

Here's some HTML/JS code for a form + map: http://pastebin.com/57nw4awx

And then you can follow this tutorial to create the map showing all the submissions: http://www.hackerlunch.com/

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