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[nycphp-talk] Search By Distance In Miles

william cheung wuillians at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 13:08:05 EDT 2004


Check this, it's under GNU GPL and there's a module for PHP, Perl and C.

http://www.cryptnet.net/fsp/zipdy/

Hope you get good bussiness.

Best regards,

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:32:42 -0400, Joseph Crawford <codebowl at gmail.com> wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> i know you can use a lon/lat database to search for things X miles
> from a zip code, has anyone here ever had the challenge of marking an
> address as the center of a radius and searching for other addresses
> within 3 miles of that address?
> 
> i am asking because a potential client only delivers up to 3.5 miles
> from his shop, however he has over 20,000 customers in that small
> area.  Now have you ever heard of doing a search to find out if an
> address is 3.5 miles from his shop address? the client checked with
> mapquest and they want something like $35,000 a year to provide him
> with this service.
> 
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