How Lanyrd does Geo

Presented at Geomob London in February 2013 http://lanyrd.com/2013/geomob-february/

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2. We use MapBox maps around the site
3. We suggest events based on the user’s Twitter and LinkedIn contacts, and their interests
4. Each event has a page showing who is speaking and attending, the schedule and more
5. Speakers get detailed profile pages
6. Users can track topics in specific geographical regions
7. The site is built around a place hierarchy
8. So you can see everything in a specific city, or everything in England
9. Or view events for a topic in a place
10. Our microformats provide rich site snippets on Google
11. We provide GeoRSS feeds, which can be fed in to Google Maps
12. Our hierarchical place database is built on top of Yahoo! Geo Planet
13. We run off our own copy of the GeoPlanet database, which Yahoo! no longer provide...
14. But it has been mirrored by the Internet Archive
15. You can explore GeoPlanet using Yahoo!’s YQL API
16. treebeard is an excellent library for dealing with trees in a SQL database
17. Our search feature is built on top of Solr...
18. We support search within an area by indexing the full place hierarchy for each event
19. Events have a primary venue, so we can plot them as a single point on a map
20. We encourage people to attach existing venues first to help avoid duplicates
22. Lanyrd has a foursquare app, which provides event information when you check in to the venue
23. We have a tool to help match our venues to foursquare venues
24. Foursquare have an API specifically for matching venues
25. The apps platform is very powerful, and extremely easy to integrate with