Application for this plugin – discussion

@dshanske I’m hoping you will be OK with exchanging notes about an application that I’d like to build around your plugin, with contributions as I can back to you. I’d like to be sure that this plugin is suitable for such an investment of time and effort (for both of us).

The app is similar to a store locator, where the current user location is used to find stored locations within a radius. In this plugin’s language I believe the locations are Venues.

This might be related to the concept of Stations, where the current location is used to find a nearby weather station. It’s my (mis?)understanding that weather providers do those calculations based on their data. In my case I have that data and might need to create a local provider.

For each Venue we have a geolocation. I understand from the plugin info that we can apply WordPress GeoData to a CPT? As one can expect with any application, rather than a ‘point’, I would think the lat-lon would be an array, maybe representing a Zone, that identifies an area the size of a building. How is that handled in this plugin? Accuracy?

Putting some of this together. When a search is done for a Venue, as defined by a CPT, the search criteria include current lat-lon and range, and Venues should be returned where the defined Zone (as defined above) is within the range of that point.

I understand some Venue functionality hasn’t been implemented. Is that in part because of the math or other complications of the above?

I’m willing to create providers and other classes to do our own calculations, and contribute them back to your project. I just don’t have a “Venn diagram view” of what you already have in here, my needs, exactly how they overlap, and what I need to do to bridge the gaps.

I’m open to this discussion in email, Slack, Skype, Discord, and other tools.

OR … should I just look at the code? Look elsewhere? ??

Thank you Very much.