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Tyler Young on Geo Mapping at Felt

Elixir Wizards

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Elixir

Ecto is like a superpower. It's so flexible for doing even really low level stuff. We want to use a bunch of post GIS queries to say, get a bounding box for a bunch of stuff on your map. Being able to drop down and use that low level stuff is really nice. The library support for post-processing GeoData is really good. So you can represent a latitude and longitude as a tuple of two floats. And if it winds up being positive, negative, it's not counterclockwise - we need to reverse it. You know, people give it so much trouble for crunching the number 10,000 elements in our database. Basically,

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