[OSM-talk] Locating users

[Nick Black]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:35 PM, David Earl <david at frankieandshadow.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to find out more than the nearest ten mappers to me?

Not currently but I think this would make a nice API feature, I've had
the same wish when organising mapping parties in the past.

We're using MySQL 5.*, so the current lat, lon field in the user table
could be migrated to a geometry point column to allow bbox queries of
users.

David: if there was an API call to get all the users from a bbox,
would it solve the problem?

Cheers,



>
>  I suppose I could change my home location systematically, but it's a bit
>  tedious.
>
>  I ask because I was thinking about a Cambridge meet up now there's quite
>  a large number of people in the area, and I know that (a) not everyone
>  is on the mailing list, and (b) there are many more people signed up in
>  the area (people who were my neighbours have been superseded by those
>  closer still as time has gone on)
>
>  David
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