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[nycphp-talk] Search By Distance In Miles

william cheung wuillians at gmail.com
Tue Oct 5 13:18:46 EDT 2004


This is another one for MySQL but it's still young.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/zips/

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 13:08:05 -0400, william cheung <wuillians at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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> >
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> 
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-- 
William Cheung Chang.
GNU/Linux User #317387.
Running Gentoo 1.4
Kernel 2.6.8-gentoo-r3
The altruistic way -> "I Run, So We All Win"

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