This is third in a series of posts on a side project of mine, NJ Parcels. Read the first and the second parts.
In the summer of 2015, we decided to get takeout from a local Greek place. We were apparently not the only folks with the same idea. When I arrived, there was a line outside and all the seats in this small place were occupied. They apologized and told me my order would take about 20 more minutes. So I hopped back in the car and took a short drive around the neighborhoods south of Glassboro.
After passing several houses either for sale or just plain interesting from the curb, I realized that I needed an easy way to search my site based on my phone’s current location. The county roads in South Jersey all have variable names, often changing mile by mile. For example, Woodbury Road becomes “Woodbury-Glassboro Road” somewhere between Glassboro and Woodbury, and then eventually changes to Glassboro Road in Woodbury. The numbering resets at one point as well, which makes searching for a specific house difficult at times.
After dinner, I wrote down my thoughts on what I would need to put a location-based search together. That weekend in June, I implemented it as “Properties Around Me” and I included a cookie to conduct some basic tracking of how the search was used. The cookie has an expiration date of two weeks from the last request and it is only set if the user agrees to share his or her location. It’s a somewhat simple unique identifier, an MD5 hash of several user attributes. The two week expiration will allow me to link users that access the page at least once every two weeks and see their usage patterns. If you use the search less frequently (or use different devices or delete/block cookies) you’ll register as a new user with no history.(...)
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In the summer of 2015, we decided to get takeout from a local Greek place. We were apparently not the only folks with the same idea. When I arrived, there was a line outside and all the seats in this small place were occupied. They apologized and told me my order would take about 20 more minutes. So I hopped back in the car and took a short drive around the neighborhoods south of Glassboro.
After passing several houses either for sale or just plain interesting from the curb, I realized that I needed an easy way to search my site based on my phone’s current location. The county roads in South Jersey all have variable names, often changing mile by mile. For example, Woodbury Road becomes “Woodbury-Glassboro Road” somewhere between Glassboro and Woodbury, and then eventually changes to Glassboro Road in Woodbury. The numbering resets at one point as well, which makes searching for a specific house difficult at times.
After dinner, I wrote down my thoughts on what I would need to put a location-based search together. That weekend in June, I implemented it as “Properties Around Me” and I included a cookie to conduct some basic tracking of how the search was used. The cookie has an expiration date of two weeks from the last request and it is only set if the user agrees to share his or her location. It’s a somewhat simple unique identifier, an MD5 hash of several user attributes. The two week expiration will allow me to link users that access the page at least once every two weeks and see their usage patterns. If you use the search less frequently (or use different devices or delete/block cookies) you’ll register as a new user with no history.(...)
Read the rest of Location-based Search for Property Information on my blog.
© John Reiser for new jersey geographer, 2016. |Permalink |No comment |Add todel.icio.us
Post tags: Location-based Services, parcels, Privacy, search
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