Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments

Re:Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments by ekatzenstein on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:35PM (#25937408)

Good point...thought about doing a typeahead for nearer zip codes if the zip code searched doesn't show up results. Counties are interesting idea, but the bucketing needs to be simplified to lat/lng for data ingestion, which is why zip codes were chosen, arguably the most intuitive thing that's "close enough" to a lat/lng coord.

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Re:Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments by Townley on Thursday January 28, 2021 @12:26AM (#25938553)

Dunno what search backend you’re using, but if it’s ElasticSearch this can be done pretty quickly with a Gaussian decay filter. That takes in lat/lng directly, and adjusts the ordering of results.

That’d also give the nifty feature of finding the closest available vaccine, even if it’s a hundred miles away (not a walk in the park, but I’d drive that far personally)

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Re:Show HN: Open Covid-19 Vaccine Appointments by ekatzenstein on Thursday January 28, 2021 @02:42PM (#25947855)

Cool idea, thanks for the tip.

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