Registration for the W.A.S.E. Programming Contest is now closed.

More details about the contest rules can be found on the Engine Yard Blog.

Registrations

  1. Jeff Heuer jeffheuer

    • Twitter account: twittter_wase
    • Description:

      Accepts an array of twitter ids and returns corresponding raw location strings for each id, where possible. (Note the 4th 't' in 'twittTer_wase', to get around twitter account naming restrictions.)

    • Repository: http://github.com/jheuer/wase_contest
    • Twitter account: @geocoder_wase
    • Description:

      Accepts an array of twitter ids with locations and attempts to return latitude, longitude, country name, and country code, where possible.

    • Repository: http://github.com/jheuer/wase_contest
    • Twitter account: mass_wase
    • Description:

      Accepts an array of twitter ids with country codes and returns the total calculated mass based on average mass for that country code.

    • Repository: http://github.com/jheuer/wase_contest
    • Twitter account: centroid_wase
    • Description:

      Accepts an array of twitter ids with corresponding latitudes and longitudes, calculates the true 3D centroid of those points, then projects that point back out to the surface of the Earth, returning a latitude and longitude for the centroid.

    • Repository: http://github.com/jheuer/wase_contest
    • Twitter account: distance_wase
    • Description:

      Accepts a latitude and longitude, and returns the true spherical (Earth surface) distance from Chicago (lat 41 54 long 87 39) to the given point, in kilometers.

    • Repository: http://github.com/jheuer/wase_contest