Getting Started with GEO, CouchDB, and Node.js: New Open Source Tools for Location Data

by David Thompson

Today's mobile devices have GPS and standard APIs to give you access to coordinates―but what can you do with that data? With this concise book, application developers learn how to work with location data quickly and easily, using Node.js, CouchDB, and other open source tools and libraries. Node.js makes it simple to run event code on the Web, and the CouchDB document-oriented database lets you store location data and perform complex queries on it quickly. You'll learn how to get started with these tools, and then use them together to build an example project called MapChat, using HTML and JavaScript code samples.

Genres: Programming

60 pages, Paperback

First published July 22, 2011

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[Peter Aronson · Rating 3 out of 5]

An odd little book, more like a project report than an actual book. I found it somewhat interesting -- hence the three stars -- but there really isn't much here.

[Johnny · Rating 1 out of 5]

The title contains of a lot of interesting technologies but the book itself is way too small to cover them. This is by far the worst O’Reilly ever published.