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I would like to retrofit Firebase to an existing app. The existing app uses CouchDB and GeoCouch to ensure that the client only retrieves data that is 'near' the user.
Does/will Firebase support this type of feature or is this something I will need to do myself?
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For those still coming here through Google Search, Firebase supports this now. Check this blogpost for more details https://www.firebase.com/blog/2014-06-23-geofire-two-point-oh.html
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We don't directly support geospatial queries. Currently, you'll need to add this functionality to your app on your own. Other users storing geodata in Firebase have had a lot of luck denormalizing data and using geohashes as keys. Geohashes let you "search" for nearby regions by truncating the key. Take a look at the description here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
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