Re: [PHPLIB] [OT] Finding nearby locations From: Francisco Hernandez (xy0xy0 <email protected>)
Date: 04/09/00

James Thompson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm currently working on a site using PHP/PHPLIB. The owner of the
> company the site will belong to wants to put up a page where customers
> could put in their city,state to get a list of possible shops in their
> area they can go to for service. It'd need to include all cities within
> a customer supplied radius (say 10, 25, or 50 miles).
>
> I'm thinking that such a system could be built on a longitude and latitude
> based system but I was wondering if such a system already exists in php or
> phplib and I've overlooked it.
>
> Thanks
> James
>
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i recently asked that question in a web message board..
http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=1&id=16190&loc=0&thread=16190
i got 2 responses someone posted code to figure out the distance
differences.. but i still need to find the zipcode latitude longitude info..
usps.gov has it.. somewhere.. :)
tell me if you find it, ive been unsuccesfull..
and theres also zipinfo.com..

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