Add Google Maps API call to "where are you located"

[divideby0]

This may eventually allow us to do more analytics on where awesome lives, both within a chapter and globally. Ideally we'd normalized the street address as well as add lat/lon using something like this:

http://janosgyerik.github.io/gmaptools/#tools/geocode

[tibbon]

This can be done.

[jcn]

I think this discussion happened offline somewhere. What is "where are you located" referring to?

[divideby0]

So we were talking about gathering more formal geospatial information on the submission form so when we add a new chapter and sort through the "Any" submissions, we can reassign. It may also eventually be useful within a chapter to say something like "we haven't funded any projects on the south side in a while."

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On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 5:20 PM, Jesse Chan-Norris wrote:

I think this discussion happened offline somewhere. What is "where are you located" referring to?

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[enspencer]

I can take a look at this with the Geocoder gem.

[avicaplan]

This sounds like it would be really useful -- we definitely need to do something about applications getting lost in the "any" pool. At the same time, we should probably change the prompt to no longer say "We'll let you know if chapter starts nearby," since we have no plans or mechanism for doing this. I'm not sure about collecting street addresses though... seems a bit more invasive than I'd like. Maybe zip codes and their international equivalents?