Provide proximity search by "my account" location(s) [#579092]

A useful enhancement to proximity search would be to provide a quick way for an authenticated user to say "search for content and/or users with proximity to 'my location'", where 'my location' is the location the user has specified under "my account" > edit > locations. If the user has specified multiple locations under "my account", in its simplest form the feature would consider the first location specified as primary and use that. A further enhancement would be to let the user select which of his "my account" locations to base the search on.

The UI could be a "My Location" checkbox in the proximity fieldset, or a series of radiobuttons in the case of multiple locations, with lat/lon and/or a map for each.

Comments

Comment #1

Daryljames commented 16 September 2009 at 20:14

I am willing to sponsor this if someone can build it...

Comment #2

pieterdc

Dutch

Ghent

commented 1 March 2010 at 13:41

You could use Views to make a "search for content and/or users with proximity to 'my location'" listing.

Comment #3

jcolby1028 commented 2 March 2010 at 16:36

I'm after something every similar but would like to have the user set the proximity in which nodes/user are displayed. This could be done for every location the user adds to his/her account.

Example-
Location 1 - Home
Search Proximity - 10 miles

Location 2 - Work
Search Proximity - 5 miles

Distance between location 1 and 2 50 miles. (crappy commute)

The user will only see nodes/users that are within 10 miles of his/her home and 5 miles of his/her work.

Thank you.

Comment #4

freelock

Seattle

commented 31 July 2010 at 20:28

Anybody working on this? Have a couple sites with exactly this need. Thinking of a quick implementation that stores latest location in the user profile, or a cookie for anonymous users. Then exposes a views argument and/or filter for filtering by proximity.

We're starting with US States as the scope, but do plan to get finer tuned.