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Show HN: Loqqus – Visualize, discover and share geotagged content

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Hey guys I created this site. Would love to get some feedback and will be happy to answer questions. There's a lot you can do with it, including reading/writing posts in any location around the world, searching for specific keywords, and following a geographic area. (ie. geofencing.)

One interesting way I was using it yesterday was to see what people are saying about ebola worldwide. A month ago there were almost no messages about it, but as you can see, people in the US, Western Europe, and Brazil are really freaking out now. (In fact, I learned yesterday of the first suspected Brazilian case by reading tweets about it on my own site. Pretty neat.) If you follow this link you'll see what I'm talking about: http://loqq.us/E

So I'm try to access the site on my note 2. The little popup says to rotate wide. I am. Then I try to click on the search box. The popup returns and I can't type.

Ah sorry about that seems to be a screw up on the responsive design. Still working out the bugs on mobile and tablets. Give it a try on your laptop! :)

Really cool. You should add your baseline to your website ("Visualize, discover and share geotagged content") somewhere so people can understand what's your product about.

Thanks! That's a good idea. I definitely need to make some it easier to understand how to use it when you hit the landing page. Thinking about adding an explainer video too.

well done. How have you done the map?

I'm curious as well.

See above, hopefully answers some of the question.

Thanks! The map on the frontend side makes use of a nifty library called Leaflet, as well as Mapbox and OpenStreetMaps. On the backend side there's a bunch of python going on but that's part of the secret sauce. :)

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