[Clipart] nearest authors

[chovynz]

I prefer this solution as suggested by J.Alves.
Manually added location. I don't really care for automatic data mining 
thankyou.
But (Sigh) I can see why you would want it as an OCAL "service".

*deleted irrelevent rant about privacy and corporate mismanagment "Who's 
watching the watcher!!"*

On 11/04/2010 3:44 a.m., J. Alves wrote:
> Why not have people themselves choose to fill it out if they want to?
> These things should usually be "opt in" so as not to
> annoy/inconvenience users, I understand. Or at the very least have a
> way to opt out...
>
> You know, people could just give (entered manually or chosen from
> list?) their city, state/province, and country, if they choose -- or
> maybe just ZIP/postal code and country, I don't know (never done this
> type of thing). And the software goes from there.
>
> J
>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:44 AM, Bassel Safadi<bassel.safadi at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> I found an interesting example of such thing here
>> http://925html.com/files/photos-around-you/
>> it uses YUI 3.1 and YQL. trying to implement it based on the IP of the
>> user. BUT we don't keep users IPs after logging out for privacy
>> issues, I think we should start doing but we have to publish privacy
>> policy first or something. what do you think?
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 1:14 AM, Jon Phillips<jon at rejon.org>  wrote:
>>      
>>> can you guys file these at openclipart's launchpad as requests in concrete
>>> tasks please?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Roger Martín<rg1024 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Hi:
>>>>
>>>> EMBE (1)
>>>> the idea or 'nearest author' is very simple: if people have more
>>>> opportunities for contact, they will contact and contact means community. I
>>>> don't know what will be the way or proposal for this contact, or it will be
>>>> a great success or less...
>>>> In the first stage, we can development the geo-localization system (with
>>>> charles references) with a mail contact (Greg appointed the need of
>>>> comunicate) and then observe what happen. In the second stage, we will see..
>>>>
>>>> Other purpose of the idea is reflect OCAL people. Visitors must see that
>>>> there people behind the scene and it's a global project.
>>>>
>>>> roger.
>