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Re:Lat/Long to Time Zone API by alpb on Sunday February 26, 2012 @03:53PM (#3636743)
Definitely, we were planning to develop exactly the same system in our social network http://ollaa.com (uses foursquare venues db). I believe that has become a common need for global soical apps. We'd love to see you are open sourcing it, otherwise we will definitely not pay $2,000 for this.
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Re:Lat/Long to Time Zone API by jrd79 on Sunday February 26, 2012 @05:22PM (#3637000)
Can't imagine it will cost you less to develop in house in terms of salaried engineering hours, and you probably won't get close to AskGeo in terms of performance. A fast spatial index is non trivial. Classic case of not properly valuing the cost of internal engineering resources.
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