{"id":335,"date":"2009-01-06T07:59:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/messofpottage.com\/blog\/?p=335"},"modified":"2009-01-06T07:59:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:59:45","slug":"sorting-people-geographically","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/06\/sorting-people-geographically\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorting people geographically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I spent most of my day off doing it, but it was fun and it was programming, so I guess that&#8217;s still a &#8220;sabbath&#8221; of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was to sort all the people in church geographically, so that, when the deacons divide them up into groups, each deacon can have a group that&#8217;s concentrated in one region.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;m still doing something wrong in one of my <em>join<\/em>s, but <code>select distinct<\/code> sorted that out. (Put a band-aid on it, more likely.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I just mention this because I wanted an excused to enthuse over <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\">Google maps<\/a>. They keep messing with it, and at least 75% of the changes are positive. For example, if you zoom in on a street in maps view, you will eventually get to the point where it gives you street numbers. Cool.<\/p>\n<p>And if you switch to satellite view and\/or terrain, it will help you define geographic zones that make more sense than simple grid squares. Witness my town of Yucca Valley, seen from way up high.<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" marginheight=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=yucca+valley,+ca&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=51.310143,75.058594&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=34.13852,-116.413879&amp;spn=0.10573,0.146599&amp;t=k&amp;z=13&amp;output=embed&amp;s=AARTsJo16Ubsd3sEE9ug_3jH6xL_QDlTrA\"><\/iframe><br \/><small><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=yucca+valley,+ca&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=51.310143,75.058594&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=34.13852,-116.413879&amp;spn=0.10573,0.146599&amp;t=k&amp;z=13&amp;source=embed\" style=\"color:#0000FF;text-align:left\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I spent most of my day off doing it, but it was fun and it was programming, so I guess that&#8217;s still a &#8220;sabbath&#8221; of sorts. The problem was to sort all the people in church geographically, so that, when the deacons divide them up into groups, each deacon can have a group that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-5p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}