TxtAtlas: My Sunday project, built with Twilio, Node.js, and Redis

by sjwalter • 16 years ago

37 22 16 years ago

A usability suggestion: remove the existing info window overlays when you add a new one, having them overlap looks ugly and is hard to read.

sil3ntmac• 16 years ago

Yes, and also remove an open overlay whenever you click elsewhere on the map.

sjwalter5• 16 years ago

Good ideas. Coming right up.

swanson• 16 years ago

Cool! I checked out your src since I am having some troubling finding any node.js projects that aren't a socket.io chatroom or the hello-world HTTP server.

rafaelc• 16 years ago

https://github.com/ry/node/wiki

johndbritton• 16 years ago

This is pretty cool, Ben Nadel also built a similar app using cold fusion and Twilio: http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1967-Cell-Phones-SMS-Twilio-Pus...

sjwalter5• 16 years ago

That app is awesome and way slicker than my little hack here. Cool!

rgejman• 16 years ago

Neat idea! The only issue is probably not resolvable. My area code is 847, placing me in northeast Illinois, but I live in NYC. I sent a shoutout with "Hello from NYC!" and it shows up in Illinois!

johns2• 16 years ago

SMS doesn't provide real-time geolocation data so the best info available is based on the area code.

nico• 16 years ago

Cool, worked with Chile! Too bad all cellphones here have the same area code.

samratjp• 16 years ago

Just curious - why the popularity in Redwood City and the same txt message for all of them:

"Gort, Klaatu barada nikto." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_barada_nikto)

sjwalter5• 16 years ago

Some person spammed that over and over. I contacted them. They are pretty cool. :) Really wish I was back in the valley, as this little experiment has put me in contact with lots of wicked hackers.

andre• 16 years ago

it's probably NOT a good idea to not post cell phone # in the open:

http://txtatlas.com/pins

sjwalter5• 16 years ago

Totally right. Man, my bad. Fixing ASAP.

sjwalter5• 16 years ago

Fixed. Change committed.

kevinburke2• 16 years ago

Edit: Twilio doesn't work with page plus cellular, bummer

johns2• 16 years ago

Can you email me at jsheehan@twilio.com? I want to look into this.

kevinburke2• 16 years ago

I checked again and Twilio does work with Page Plus - the problem was with my phone.

pyre• 16 years ago

Apparently there are 'free gropes at the airport' in Minneapolis. Huh?

tzury• 16 years ago

Cool, I sent a text message, but do not see me on the map.

Note, I do exist on '/pins' which suggest that's probably a bug in Google maps

    {"text":"Hello from Tel Aviv","date":"Mon Nov 22 2010 06:40:39 GMT+0000 (UTC)","location":{"country":"IL","lat":40.6331249,"lng":-89.3985283}}

That's me.

bambax• 16 years ago

Just texted from Paris, got pinned in the middle of France: I guess for Europe it only detects the country?

keith_erskine• 16 years ago

Hats off to Twilio - it makes SMS dead simple

TxtAtlas: My Sunday project, built with Twilio, Node.js, and Redis

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