How Lanyrd does Geo - Speaker Deck

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We use MapBox maps around the site

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We suggest events based on the user’s Twitter and LinkedIn contacts, and their interests

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Each event has a page showing who is speaking and attending, the schedule and more

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Speakers get detailed proﬁle pages

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Users can track topics in speciﬁc geographical regions

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The site is built around a place hierarchy

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So you can see everything in a speciﬁc city, or everything in England

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Or view events for a topic in a place

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Our microformats provide rich site snippets on Google

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We provide GeoRSS feeds, which can be fed in to Google Maps

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Our hierarchical place database is built on top of Yahoo! Geo Planet

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We run off our own copy of the GeoPlanet database, which Yahoo! no longer provide...

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But it has been mirrored by the Internet Archive

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You can explore GeoPlanet using Yahoo!’s YQL API

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treebeard is an excellent library for dealing with trees in a SQL database

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Our search feature is built on top of Solr...

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We support search within an area by indexing the full place hierarchy for each event

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Events have a primary venue, so we can plot them as a single point on a map

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We encourage people to attach existing venues ﬁrst to help avoid duplicates

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