[Koha-bugs] [Bug 11181] New: Koha geolocalization of OPAC users for better sort results

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=11181

            Bug ID: 11181
           Summary: Koha geolocalization of OPAC users for better sort
                    results
 Change sponsored?: ---
           Product: Koha
           Version: 3.14
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: new feature
          Priority: P5 - low
         Component: OPAC
          Assignee: oleonard at myacpl.org
          Reporter: pablo.bianchi at gmail.com
        QA Contact: testopia at bugs.koha-community.org

As I suggest back on 2009
(http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Geolocalization-in-Koha-td3069181.html ) it
would be very nice if Koha could offer geolocation[0] (maybe using
openstreetmap.org or Google Maps API).

Having branches spread over a large territory make this feature very useful,
making the records of the searched material more near first in the result list.
Is possible to add some heuristics based on what people usually search for
nearby (as Google does).
There are some freely available databases[1], but also is possible to create
and improve one over time, based on location established on registered and
logged users, associating it with their IP address.

Some extra fields for each Library should be added to database (aside
code for geolocation and sorting OPAC results) like longitude and
latitude on Decimal Degrees, "DD"[2], and a system preference to
activate/deactivate this.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolocation
[1] http://www.ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_degrees

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