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On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > If you happen to post jobs to code4lib.org you'll notice that you can > now add a location for the job. In fact you are required to fill it in > when posting. s/code4lib.org/jobs.code4lib.org/ That's what I get for writing email at 2am I guess... //Ed On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Ed Summers <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > If you happen to post jobs to code4lib.org you'll notice that you can > now add a location for the job. In fact you are required to fill it in > when posting. > > The location input field uses Freebase Suggest just like the employer > and tag fields. When you select an employer the location will > auto-populate with the employer's headquarters location, but you can > change it if the job happens to be somewhere else...which does happen > from time to time. I retroactively applied as many locations as I > could using the employer. > > One nice side effect (other than seeing where the job is for in the > UI) is having lat/lon geo-coordinates for the job. I haven't built any > maps into the UI yet, but I did expose the coordinates in the Atom > feed which lets you do this: > > https://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://jobs.code4lib.org/feed/ > > The small number of markers is because this is just the first page of > the feed, e.g. > > https://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://jobs.code4lib.org/feed/2/ > https://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://jobs.code4lib.org/feed/3/ > https://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://jobs.code4lib.org/feed/4/ > ... > > If someone has an interest in playing with LeafletJS or something to > get some map views into jobs.code4lib.org proper that might be a fun > experiment, if you have any spare time. > > Many thanks to Ted Lawless for the work to get this going, and also to > Mark Matienzo for tirelessly assigning employers to the historic job > postings. There are still a few kinks to work out (some historic > postings that had addresses in non-standard places in the freebase > data), but please feel free to file issue tickets on Github [1] if you > notice anything odd. > > //Ed > > [1] https://github.com/code4lib/shortimer