Great Lakes Geeks
Team Members
- faithfulgeek
- Josh Walsh
- andrewkavanaugh
- wavethenavel
Voting Statistics
- leaderboard position
- 1
- overall average
- 2.963
- appearance
- 2.910
- completeness
- 3.070
- innovation
- 2.925
- usefulness
- 2.947
- total ratings
- 936
What
The application is called MeetInBetween - an application that allows you to specify the address of multiple people and find a central meeting point for dinner, coffee, drinks, wifi and more.
Where
- Entry URL:
- http://meetinbetween.us
How
Better-bort(Includes: asset packager, access state machine, exception notifier, forgot password, haml, openid Authentication, resource controller, restful authentication, role requirements, rspec, rspec-rails, will paginate) & geokit & RSpec on Rails Matchers & hpricot, Google Maps API
Yes, a.placebetween.us does allow multiple addresses as do we, and yes, they place the midpoint for Australia, HK and HI the same as we do:
http://a.placebetween.us/?search=Coffee&address1=Honalulu%2C%20HI&address2=Hong%20Kong&address3=Australia
We’ll have a much more feature rich release and a better midpoint algorithm to prevent these type of issues soon. But thanks for your feedback.
Examples:
http://mtbwn.us/1a81bb1
http://mtbwn.us/04ae252
Wow, your app places the midpoint between Japan and Hawaii in the Atlantic Ocean. Afraid to cross the international date line or something?
http://a.placebetween.us has been around for years and does work with multiple addresses
For everyone who needs to meet in the Atlantic ocean, have no fear. We are planning in our next iteration of the app to partner with Triton™, the out-to-sea search engine, for all those floating island resorts. We also heard from a reliable source that the Dharma initiative plans to make an island appear somewhere near your personal search results. It comes complete with hostile natives, polar bears, and regularly air-dropped food containers.
hmm…The things you can do out here..
http://www.mambono.com/misc/images/meetInBtwn.jpg.
Haha @ In the middle of the water.
ahh Ok. My lack of knowledge on dns configurations.
My best wishes for your app. Good Job!
@dinesh
Our Google Maps API Key was for MeetInBetween.Us – so to make sure the app worked, we needed to redirect to that URL. They sit on the same server provided by RailsRumble and the code is the one provided during our checkin. You can see they are the same server by checking the IP:
Name: meetinbetween.r08.railsrumble.com
Address: 72.14.181.27
Name: meetinbetween.us
Address: 72.14.181.27
How come this app redirecting me away from railsrumble alloted web-space and pointing me to other live site where app can be modified even after allotted 48 hrs?
http://meetinbetween.r08.railsrumble.com/
pointing to
http://meetinbetween.us/
Can railsrumble team verify this and let me know the real drama behind this or am I missing something?
A useful app & of all the others I can actually see a situation where I can use this.
I love it! Easy to use and useful. Good job guys!
Great to see you guys at #1. Great design, easy interface, did exactly what I thought it would do.
Nathan – Compost
Pretty much a perfect microapp. Rock on, guys.
@Jaime Sorry to hear that – if you could send me the addresses you used, I can check to see what happened and see if there is a bug we should fix in a future release. You can reach me at desk (AT) andrewkavanaugh.com
Great idea, but this doesn’t seem to work for me in a local region. I live way on the very west edge of Kansas City (there’s literally a field out my back window), and I tried to find a meetup point between myself and my old office, in downtown KC. Then I tried an address way on the other side of town, about 30 miles away. Instead of getting a midpoint, I was redirected to the start page. To me, I think this app would be most useful in town, meeting up with friends.
Great work, guys!
Not a problem guys. I even tweeted about it (tWrex) and threw it on my facebook
-(I hate that app)- so others could take a look at it. I’ve actually gotten a few responses from people saying they loved it and have bookmarked it so keep it up! Once you guys finally show up on my vote allocation I’ll be giving you guys the best I can!Love it
@bjeanes – yes, unfortunately 40 hours just isn’t enough time to perfect an algorithm based on driving directions. In all the testing we’ve seen it has worked well enough for most people. Of course, if your midpoint is not on land you can always drag it somewhere else and search there. Not ideal, but an acceptable solution until a better algorithm can be derived.
Pneumonic: We purposefully chose not to look at our competition before building anything so that we would be forced to come up with what we thought was the best way to go.
I like designing processes like this without any preconceived notions. It’s great to be appreciated.
Thanks for taking the time to write this compliment.
I checked out this site first and then went to the meetways mashup mentioned above. By far this is a FAR better implementation. Meetways is not only kludgy and slow, but you have to select the type of location you want to visit before you select your locations. This is not just painful because the site is already slow, but a pain because you continuously have to keep going back and selecting your locations if you want to search for something else. All-in-all, meetinbetween.us is the better implementation. It’s unique, it’s useful and it’s fast. I wanted to find a place to meet between Chicago and Boston where I could get wifi. Typed in the addresses, got the midway point, clicked other and typed in wifi. Got 8 resources. That’s not even possible on meetways.
Hands down, the most useful app I’ve seen on Railsrumble. While many other apps may be useful, a lot of them are geared specifically to certain people (runners, hikers, boaters, etc). This app is geared towards people. Big thumbs up.
Meh … how can this be second. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a top 20 app, but it’s too simple. It doesn’t work when going in a straight line isn’t the shortest route (i.e. through a river?). I wish I could use it but unless you live in a desert where everyone just picks a direction and goes, it’s not useful enough
I just used it today.
Is this Useful app?
BUT! Meetways (http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup/meetways) only works with two addresses. And I wouldn’t argue isn’t nearly as visually useful as ours. They have a lot of clutter.
And again. Not bad – BUT UNIQUE? http://www.programmableweb.com/mashup/meetways/
Nice. Now if I can just get you to leave your house…
Very cool! Now if I can only figure out how to vote for it, I will.
Where’s the vote link?
Usefulness? Bah, who were voted for that?
great!!!
Great site, very unique concept!