How Lanyrd does Geo
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This document discusses the features of an event discovery and recommendation website. It uses MapBox maps, suggests events based on contacts and interests, and shows event details pages. Users can track topics by location and the site has a hierarchical place database. It provides rich snippets, GeoRSS feeds, and supports search within areas by indexing the place hierarchy. Events have primary venues to plot on maps and the site integrates with Foursquare.
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How Lanyrd does Geo
- 2. We use MapBox maps around the site
- 3. We suggest events based on the user’s Twitter and LinkedIn contacts, and their interests
- 4. Each event has a page showing who is speaking and attending, the schedule and more
- 5. Speakers get detailed profile pages
- 6. Users can track topics in specific geographical regions
- 7. The site is built around a place hierarchy
- 8. So you can see everything in a specific city, or everything in England
- 9. Or view events for a topic in a place
- 10. Our microformats provide rich site snippets on Google
- 11. We provide GeoRSS feeds, which can be fed in to Google Maps
- 12. Our hierarchical place database is built on top of Yahoo! Geo Planet
- 13. We run off our own copy of the GeoPlanet database, which Yahoo! no longer provide...
- 14. But it has been mirrored by the Internet Archive
- 15. You can explore GeoPlanet using Yahoo!’s YQL API
- 16. treebeard is an excellent library for dealing with trees in a SQL database
- 17. Our search feature is built on top of Solr...
- 18. We support search within an area by indexing the full place hierarchy for each event
- 19. Events have a primary venue, so we can plot them as a single point on a map
- 20. We encourage people to attach existing venues first to help avoid duplicates
- 22. Lanyrd has a foursquare app, which provides event information when you check in to the venue
- 23. We have a tool to help match our venues to foursquare venues
- 24. Foursquare have an API specifically for matching venues
- 25. The apps platform is very powerful, and extremely easy to integrate with