Vivek’s Soapbox

Ever wanted to find a place where all the shops you wanted to go to were close together so that you could drive to one place and be done with it? Ever gone out to lunch with friends, only one wants to go to Subway, another to Quiznos, and another to Carls Jr, and wanted to find a place where all three were next to each other?

Then Shop Finder is for you. Enter two or more shops, or restaurants or any business at all, and a location, and it will go and tell you where you can find all of them close to each other.

This is a quick and dirty early release, and there’s still plenty of stuff I want to do with this if I have some spare time on my hands:

• Brush up the interface — show links to the shops, present clusters in a way that doesn’t look like debug output etc.
• Let the user tweak the cluster radius — that’s how close two shops should be to be considered as part of the same cluster.

In the meanwhile, I hope someone finds this useful. Feedback is most welcome. Leave comments here, or email vh@vivekhaldar.com
This is what I was getting at with a couple of earlier posts.

OK, take me to Shop Finder already!!