March 2009 Archives
Speeding up location based searches
With the popularity of Google Maps, more and more web applications are becoming location aware. Rails already has some great tools for working with geodata, such as GeoKit. We've been happily using these tools for years. While GeoKit has some basic optimizations, we recently found a case where lookups were taking close to 8 seconds. We needed a way to speed this up. Read on to learn how we did it.
Continue Reading…Posted by Mike Mangino on Mar 06, 2009