Question

In my app, a user is at a location and is looking for her friends who have been anywhere withing 10 miles of where she is. How do I find this with either FQL or graph? The only way that I can see is by running a search like so: https://graph.facebook.com/search?type=checkin and then running through the results to find out which location was within 10 miles. Is there a better way for this?

Thanks for your help!

Doles

Answer 1

Although the initial answer did work for me for part of my purpose, it quickly became inadequate. Now, after banging my head against the wall, it finally broke (not my head – the wall). Here are two more BETTER ways that WORK to find what I need:

This is to find just checkins:

SELECT checkin_id, coords, tagged_uids, page_id FROM checkin WHERE
(author_uid IN (SELECT uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me()) or
author_uid=me()) and coords.latitude<‘45.0′ and coords.latitude>’29’
and coords.longitude>’-175′ and coords.longitude<‘-5’;

This is to find all location posts:

SELECT id, page_id FROM location_post WHERE (author_uid IN (SELECT
uid2 FROM friend WHERE uid1 = me()) or author_uid=me()) and
coords.latitude<‘45.0′ and coords.latitude>’29’ and
coords.longitude>’-175′ and coords.longitude<‘-5’