distance importance factor will be higher than in a region where the pizza restaurant density is low, for example, in San Francisco's Chinatown. That is, in downtown Chicago, the user that input the search query is more likely to be looking for a closely proximate pizza restaurant than a ...
I started by downloading a decent sized mesh of San Francisco. I then used the Houdini Labs tools and the MapBox API to grab street-map geo from OSM and overlaid it on the Google Maps geo. (This OSM step was totally unnecessary, but it was an interesting exercise.) I could then ...
Google Next 19, the big annual conference from Google Cloud and G Suite, is just around the corner. It starts on Tuesday 9th April, although there are things happening on Sunday and Monday beforehand. I have my ticket and I’m flying to San Francisco on Sunday. I’m really excited! Las...