GitHub - thingsinjars/Proximity: Proximity search API.

Proximity

A basic proximity search API built using MongoDB, node.js and express. This currently uses the Twitter Streaming API as the data source.

Built mostly as a chance to experiment with MongoDB. Twitter provides its own proximity search so this was mostly an exercise.

There are two main scripts:

ingest.js
- Connects to the Twitter Streaming API and saves geo-tagged tweets into MongoDB
api.js
- The public API server

/proximity?latitude=XX&longitude=XX

This provides the 100 posts nearest to the given coordinate ordered by increasing distance.

/proximity?latitude=XX&longitude=XX&q=SEARCHTERM

This filters on the given search term first then orders the posts by proximity to the given coordinate.

Both of these can take a &callback=XXX parameter to enable jsonp