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petre
on Feb 5, 2021
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Modifying Telegram's “People Nearby” feature to pi...
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
ericpauley
on Feb 5, 2021
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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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