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Ohh, every geo join/spatial thing with picture that consists of those small cells over map is such pet peeve of mine. Facebook marketplace, craigslist, tinder, any app with “proximity search”.

No, this city isn’t 4 miles from my city. There is a literal lake between us. It’s 10+ miles.

Please, invent something, do precompute, but just avoid naive-ish searches.

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Is this related to the article?

Hes just angry hes not a crow.

Yes. The pictures with those small grids that ignore highways, rivers and mountains is what bothers me

But that's just a way to explain the algorithm. No one will show that to the users. And they don't ignore anything, those features are inside the hexagons.



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