ability to filter appwrite Users and custom collections based on Geo coordinates

[sateeshs]

I have list of general stores across a city wide. As a developer I need to filter stores near to login user. Similarly store also like to see nearest customers.

Users and Stores needs to be filters by geo codes.

[eldadfux]

This can be a very useful feature in so many use cases. To implement it we will need to add a new data + rule type for geo coordinates (x,y) + add option to cast resources order-by parameter to geo proximity. A nice addition will be to add a radius-limit parameter to return only result within a given radius.

[gewenyu99]

While we don't have exactly what you requested for geolocation, there is a way to build location-based apps in Appwrite, if you can accept using rectangular regions instead of circular regions:

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/building-a-location-based-app-with-appwrite-48a2e2b6d4c2

I'm hoping this article will at least provide a temporary solution.

[Tananga]

This feature is a must have. I see that AppWrite is going big with Flutter and in flutter apps based on geolocation is very common.

[stnguyen90]

You might also be able to calculate the bounds: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/80809/calculating-bounding-box-coordinates-based-on-center-and-radius

Here's the dart code: https://gist.github.com/stnguyen90/145bc06d4ae72c69295a46a05e2092d5

And here's what it generates:

[malikdoksoz]

You might also be able to calculate the bounds: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/80809/calculating-bounding-box-coordinates-based-on-center-and-radius

Here's the dart code: https://gist.github.com/stnguyen90/145bc06d4ae72c69295a46a05e2092d5

If there is too much data, it would not make sense to calculate it with darts. For this, we expect geopoint feature in appwrite. This is like showing us data between at least 2 locations, for example the nearest 20 km distance.

I've been waiting for this feature for 3 months :)

[moshOntong-IT]

update for this issue or request features for Appwrite

[gewenyu99]

update for this issue or request features for Appwrite

AFAIK, we're not actively working on this yet. There's some other things we're prioritizing, but we'll make another update here when we have something planned.

[malikdoksoz]

No focus in 3 years :)

[gewenyu99]

No focus in 3 years :)

;) We could always use more hands, we'd love an RFC or other contribution.

We have ~15 engineers, your help could bring a 6.67% increase in our productivity 😉

Sit tight, we'll try to fit this into one of our future releases.

[stnguyen90]

You might also be able to calculate the bounds: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/80809/calculating-bounding-box-coordinates-based-on-center-and-radius
Here's the dart code: https://gist.github.com/stnguyen90/145bc06d4ae72c69295a46a05e2092d5

If there is too much data, it would not make sense to calculate it with darts. For this, we expect geopoint feature in appwrite. This is like showing us data between at least 2 locations, for example the nearest 20 km distance.

Sorry, what do you mean? My suggestion allows you to show the nearest 20km things.

[malikdoksoz]

You might also be able to calculate the bounds: https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/80809/calculating-bounding-box-coordinates-based-on-center-and-radius

Here's the dart code: https://gist.github.com/stnguyen90/145bc06d4ae72c69295a46a05e2092d5

If there is too much data, it would not make sense to calculate it with darts. For this, we expect geopoint feature in appwrite. This is like showing us data between at least 2 locations, for example the nearest 20 km distance.

Sorry, what do you mean? My suggestion allows you to show the nearest 20km things.

Imagine there are 10 million vehicle listings, and a user wants to see listings near their location using a location-based filter. What if one million people want to do the same from different locations?

[stnguyen90]

@malikdoksoz, again, that's possible with my approach. Where is your concern?

[malikdoksoz]

@malikdoksoz, again, that's possible with my approach. Where is your concern?

Does it make sense to do this on the client side? This calculation should be on the server side.

[stnguyen90]

@malikdoksoz, it would make it a little easier if it was done automatically server-side. Being able to do this simple calculation client-side allows you to move forward and not be blocked by having dedicated geo-based queries. Just to emphasize, the calculation is only to calculate the bounds. The processing of filtering data is still done server-side.