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[ru_linux_geek]

I am seriously thinking about implementing my concert alert for Pandora idea in my free time.

It would be nice if these things already existed.

• An open source library that turns an address (zip code, whatever) into some manageable form of geographic information, say a latitude/longitude pair.
  
  
• A library for actually manipulating lat/long pairs.

Comments

[dplass]

I'm sure #1 and #2 already existed. (In fact don't we have #1 already?)

It's #3 which is probably hard.

[ru_linux_geek]

I am sure Google has code to #1 and #2, but I'd like to just make this an open source web app done on my own time.

[certron]

Hi, I'm here for solving your lazy

Possible solution to #3

[ru_linux_geek]

http://www.audioscrobbler.net/data/webservices/

In particular,

http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/1.0/artist/Incubus/events.rss

Re: Possible solution to #3

[certron]

Sounds good to me, the only minor issue is getting the band name 'right'.

Looks like there's a project brewing.

Re: Possible solution to #3

[ru_linux_geek]

Do you know about geocoders that also work outside the US?