Re: geographic search engine
| From: | Manuel Lemos | Date: | Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:58:41 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: geographic search engine | ||
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Hello,
on 01/11/2005 05:57 PM Symbulos Partners said the following:
We would like to implement a geographic search engine. We have a list of places, the user enters a postcode + a radius in kms and the search engine returns a list of places within a certain radius. Any body has any experience with anything similar?Here you may find a couple of solutions that search a database of post codes with coordinates to find which are within the range: http://www.phpclasses.org/phpziplocator http://www.phpclasses.org/zipcodesrange -- Regards, Manuel Lemos PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP http://www.phpclasses.org/ PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html