Proximity Notifications

[Christopher Ambler]

Allow users to set their default locations, preferably by using the mapping add-on to give their address and refine their location on a map.

 

Given this, then allow users to give a radius inside of which they wish to receive email notifications of new listings.

 

So a user could find their location on the map and then say, "Please email me any time there's a listing in any of the following directories/sections/categories within 50 miles of my location."

 

This would require a new table to hold userid, radius, a list of directories/sections/categories for which they want notifications, and the user's lat/lon location. It would also require that when a new listing is published, the table is scanned and emails generated. If there are a lot of users, this might be problematic to do in real time.

[charles]

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