Add map to job board

[dbrgn]

Would be great if the job locations were visible on a map. That helps to drill down on interesting/relevant offers.

[berkerpeksag]

Thank you for the report, but implementing this feature correctly would require a lot of changes to the current codebase (geodata etc.) and I don't think it would worth the effort. We could start with #677 as a base and add features like "Show job postings near {{ country }}" incrementally.

[malemburg]

Hmm, I don't think it would require a lot of changes, but only some way to read the job data as JSON data.

The map could then be implemented externally as a separate project, as was done for the Python event calendars: http://lmorillas.github.io/python_events/ (code available here: https://github.com/lmorillas/python_events).

So perhaps instead of requesting a map, perhaps we ought to open a ticket to provide job board data as JSON download ?!

[berkerpeksag]

It's easier to do it for Python events because location names are normalized. Currently, there is no way to automatically prevent adding duplicate locations like "Durham, North Carolina – United States" and "Durham, North Carolina – USA".

PR #1150 will solve this problem (plus it will add a geoname_id field to get coordination of a location easier)

[malemburg]

The event locations are not normalized. They are all hand edited. Google does the hard work of mapping the location names to coordinates :-)