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It can be easier. One could geohash the location with a certain precision, say 5 = ±2.4 km and only display people in that geohash and the neigbouring geohashes.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash




The functional component of this technique is still just quantization (as in the parent). One might argue that this is actually more complicated.




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